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Kevin S.44's avatar
Kevin S.44
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10 years ago

List / download from other users' public folders in iOS?

Is it possible for Dropbox users to list a folder as public, and for an iOS app to (after getting the link to the folder) list the contents of the folder and download the contents? My goal is read-...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Dropbox API v2 does have endpoints for getting shared link metadata and files, but unfortunately they don't currently offer the file listing for links that point to folders. So, if you knew the names of the files you want to download in the folder, that would work, but you can't list the names using that.

The v1 version of the endpoint does offer that though:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/docs#metadata-link

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