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Niko H.
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11 years ago

Set expiration of streamble link via /media

Hey there, I'm using the Dropbox PHP SDK to create a streamable link via the /media API reference, by calling createTemporaryDirectLink($path) in PHP. Is there any chance to influence the lifeti...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

The expiration information for a link from /media is returned in the "expires" key in the response:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#media

It's not currently possible to change that, but if you instead need a longer-lived link, you can use /shares instead:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#shares

Those links don't expire by default, though they can be revoked. They also point to the preview page by default, and not the file content itself, but you can modify them as necessary for that as shown here:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/201

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