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Suporte S.
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10 years ago

share file inside a folder by id

Hi. I'm trying to share a file by his id. If the file it's on the root folder, using '/create_shared_link_with_settings' i can pass only the id, and testing on the api explorer works fine. So, ...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

If you want to create a shared link for a file and you know the id for the file, you can just use that, as opposed to trying to combine path and id. That is, if "id:h8f3g764f73gf7fg" is the id for a file at /myfolder/myfile that you want a shared link for, you can just use the id only:

curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer my-key' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"path":"id:h8f3g764f73gf7fg","settings":{}}'

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