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Kpraveen
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

how to get a link for a folder instead of several files in dropbox??

I want to get a no of files in a folder, I need to download the files in the folder through a  single link which describes the folder path , only through that link I want to download the files which ever I want...is it possible or not...

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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    9 years ago

    After you list the files in a folder, you can use the DownloadAsync method in the .NET SDK to download the specific files you want, as identified by their paths.

    That returns the file content directly, but if you do need a link, you can instead use the GetTemporaryLinkAsync method.

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