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Harsh S.1
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11 years ago

How to download thumbnail/image file

Hi  I am using the python requests library to request a particular thumbnail from my dropbox. My request receives a 200 response. However, how do i use this response object to actually display/save...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

When you receive a 200 status code from this endpoint, it indicates that the API call was successful, and the body will contain the thumbnail data. Exactly how you display that is up to your app though. For example, you might save that raw data to a local file, etc.

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