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rustyx2
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10 years ago

How to list a shared directory via Dropbox API?

I am writing an app that needs to download all the files from a directory shared via a link. But when a link is a folder, /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file returns: HTTP/409 shared_link_is_dire...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

API v2 doesn't return the file/folder listing for shared links, e.g., in SharedLinkMetadata/FolderLinkMetadata, unfortunately. I'll send this along as a feature request though.

 

(A workaround would be to use the deprecated /1/metadata/link.)

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rustyx2
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10 years ago

Indeed, using API v1 I was able to get the file list. Thanks a lot for the tip!

 

I only hope that API v2 will support this before v1 is disabled :-O

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