Python implementation for shared link metadata

A shared link within the app folder works! I believe that this particular behavior should be described in the API documentation. I have been attempting to do with a generic shared link for a while before ending up to open a discussion here. To be honest, I am not totally sure that I got the logic beyond the approach. What is the use case of retrieving metadata from a shared link to a folder that is already in the app folder?

In my use case, I would like to download files from a 'generic' shared link to a folder (since I don't want to provide the malicious user with an easy way to hack these files). I mean: I want to put some files in a folder on my Dropbox, then hard code the shared link in an application that can use the shared link to (only) download the files that I put on the folder. Can I do this with the current APIs? If not, do you have plans to implement it?