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Joel
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11 years ago

Need to test for Dropbox file share url

I'm writing an email add-in program that needs to flag emails that contain dropbox file share links. I've searched here at the Community. I did find there is no way right now to detect invalid urls. ...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

It sounds like you may be looking for a regex pattern that can be used to identify Dropbox links. I don't believe we have a single such pattern pre-built, but this help article lists official domains and URL patterns:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/217#domains

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