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Programmatically Process Shared Link Folders and Sub-Folders and Their Contents
Well I'm still at a loss.
I have the shared link to a folder that I need to check on a daily schedule to see if there's new files. The logic of which is all fine, but I just can't access anythi...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThe /2/files/list_folder response doesn't include shared links for entries, nested or not. It does include the normal File/FolderMetadata for the entries though, so you can use that metadata in your app. To step back a bit though, what functionality are you trying to build?
For example, if you then want to programamtically download a file from one of the subfolders, you can then use /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file with the original main shared link and relevant relative path again to do so.
Alternatively, if you do just want the nested shared link itself, e.g., to hand off to the user to display in the browser, that isn't available on the API. Let me know if that's the end goal and I'll pass it along as a feature request though.
Greg-DBDropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorUpdate: The Dropbox API now returns the shared link for the nested item as 'url' when requesting the metadata for that item using the "path" parameter on /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata (instead of the original parent link).
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