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Neon20
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Read folder and download files from URL others users
Someone gives me a public URL that is a folder with images. How i can read the folder and download the files that contains? URL example: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iccq7cc0xtvue9t/AADXnwDSYERNKOR...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
8 years agoIf you just need to download the entire folder from a link like this, the simplest way is to use the URL parameters as instructed here:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/201
If you want to download individual files from the linked folder, you can use the API's /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file endpoint:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_shared_link_file
In the Java SDK, that's the getSharedLinkFile method:
That does require you to know the path of the file that you want in the folder though, and API v2 unfortunately doesn't offer a way to get the file listing.
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