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How to check if filezip is too big to download in shared link
Hi allo, with JS api i have create a function that use sharingCreateSharedLink for create a shared link and redirect user with ?dl=1 fro download it. But if zip is too big the user exit from my a...
so greg, this dropbox api offer very very basic functionalities but i found a way to do that:
1. pass download path to my php sdk
2. using listfolder api with recursive set to true
3. reduce results entries with array_reduce php function to sum file size in bytes
4. check with dropbox filesize limit (20 gb + 10000 files count)
5 and return status of check, if sum of files is to big or files count is greater than 10000 files
i hope to be usefull for someone
Best
thx greg is there another mechanism?
so greg, this dropbox api offer very very basic functionalities but i found a way to do that:
1. pass download path to my php sdk
2. using listfolder api with recursive set to true
3. reduce results entries with array_reduce php function to sum file size in bytes
4. check with dropbox filesize limit (20 gb + 10000 files count)
5 and return status of check, if sum of files is to big or files count is greater than 10000 files
i hope to be usefull for someone
Best
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for following up with that. Yes, that would be the way to manually figure this out using the API. Apologies there isn't a more direct way of doing that!
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