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How to authenticate and stream a video file
Hello,
Question: How can I authenticate and stream a video file using api?
Context: I am working on a tool that should authenticate first to access a user file (I understand the token-in...
Thanks you very much, Greg!
I follow-up question with some testing.
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/file_requests/list_v2 --header "Authorization: Bearer <bearer_token>" --data "{\"limit\":1000}" --header "Dropbox-API-Select-User <user_token>
Upon trying a simple curl command in terminal to make sure that I get a valid response (list of files) from dropbox server, I get this response:
curl: (52) Empty reply from server
I have the files in the folder and token are not expired as well.
Any idea what could be wrong?
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community Moderatorchakmangoo To clarify, the /2/file_requests/list_v2 is for listing "file requests", not actual files. If you want to list the actual files in a folder, you should use /2/files/list_folder and /2/files/list_folder/continue.
In any case, you shouldn't be receiving an "Empty reply from server" error; that may indicate an issue with your network connection. If you're still seeing that, please share the full code/steps to reproduce the issue, and the full output. It may be useful to use the "-v" flag on curl to get verbose output. Be sure to redact your access token though.
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