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TomH2
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7 years ago

save_url directly into folder_id

I'm trying to use the same functionality that the /upload endpoint has where you can specify which folder you want to upload into by directly using the folder_id ie  ```curl -X POST https://content...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

You're not doing anything wrong. The /2/files/save_url endpoint unfortunately just doesn't support specifying a path relative to the ID for a folder, like /2/files/upload does. I'll pass this along as a feature request, but I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.

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