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brian_lawney
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7 years ago

Non-expiring direct links

I am looking for some help with orchestrating downloads from Dropbox to a local filesystem.  I have essentially built a file-transfer application which will allow our users to upload large files from...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago
There isn't a way to do that exactly. Instead though, you can use "preview" links, and then modify them for direct access:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/force-download

That will give you a non-expiring link from which you can directly download the file content.

Things to be aware of however:
- these preview links don't expire but can still be revoked at any time by the user
- these preview links will be listed in the user's shared links on https://www.dropbox.com/links

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