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Pritam B.
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Is there a way to get multiple image thumbnails in batches using Dropbox API?
Hi,
Is there a way to get image thumbnails in batches using the dropbox API? For example, this blog post describes a way how it was achieved by the official dropbox app. But it seems that this API...
Aaron F.16
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
If you are passing on requests, it would be nice to get back thumbnail urls in response to a metadata request, and to have them accessible without authentication, much like a media request. That would save at least one transaction per image, and speed up the other by allowing developers to put the thumbnail url directly in an <img> tag rather than using a base64 or blob url. Also, then the browser would cache, rather than the application.
Maybe something like this:
{
"size": "225.4KB",
"rev": "35e97029684fe",
"thumb_exists": true,
"thumb_url": "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/1/view/thumb/xxxxxx/mypic.jpg"
"thumb_expires": "Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:55:38 +0000",
"bytes": 230783,
"modified": "Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:55:38 +0000",
"client_mtime": "Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:04:35 +0000",
"path": "/mypic.jpg",
"is_dir": false,
"icon": "page_white_acrobat",
"root": "dropbox",
"mime_type": "image/jpeg",
"revision": 220823
}
Thanks,
-A-
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