How to download a directory from shareable link using Dropbox API in Python ?

Question

Hi&nbsp; folks,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I want to download the directory and its files from a shareable link programmatically. I cannot find a good approach for that can anyone help me with suggestions?Thanks

Greg-DB · Answer

There are two ways you can approach this:

With&nbsp;the official&nbsp;Dropbox Python SDK, use the method&nbsp;sharing_get_shared_link_file to download the file content from a shared link. Or without the SDK, make the same call to&nbsp;/2/sharing/get_shared_link_file&nbsp;API endpoint itself directly.
Without using the API/SDK, modify the shared link URL for&nbsp;raw access as documented here, and issue a GET request with your HTTPS client of choice to&nbsp;download the file content directly.

Sameer96 · Answer

Hi Greg,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Thanks a lot for your answer it solved my issue. One more thing can I upload a zip file programmatically to the shared link provided by another user or else I can only download the files from a shared link?Thanks

Greg-DB · Answer

Shared links only provide view/download access. You can't upload to them.

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