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James_T
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

Listing files in a folder, and make download links for all files?

I have a private Dropbox. I have a PHP-driven webpage where i want to list clickable links to some files in a specific folder in my dropbox. It's simple to list the files on my web page, I just ...
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James_T
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

Won't looping through every file and folder and make a ton of share links be very slow?

 

The embedding solution seems more sensible, but if I understand correctly:

 

1. The root folder must have a share link created first

2. I have no control over which files and folders are displayed (I can't choose to hide a specific subfolder, or a specific file)

 

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
5 years ago
James_T wrote:

Won't looping through every file and folder and make a ton of share links be very slow?

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Здравко  wrote:
... Existing links could be enumerated with sharing/list_shared_links. ...

If you take care every file you want to show to be associated in advance with a shared link, listing process is just a single API call. 😉 Even more, you can filter the results "on fly" and filter any unwanted entry with a shared link. Is this so slow? 🤔 Probably it depends on your data structure...

Good luck.

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