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Thibaut D.
11 years agoNew member | Level 2
Shared image thumbnail
Hi,
I have some shared image with a public shared link. Is there a way to add paremeters to the link in order to get the image thumbnail and not the full file. I realy don't want to download the full image in the browser as it can be heavy.
If not possible, do you think it will be added in a near future? or do you think of another way to access the thumbnail of the shared image ?
The only thing that comes to my mind is to duplicate the data on the dropbox account but that's clearly not nice.
Thank you for your help,
Best
12 Replies
- Leah C.111 years agoNew member | Level 1
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do.
You can get a thumbnail of an image using the Dropbox Core API/thumbnailsendpoint: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#thumbnails - Greg-DB11 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Taking a guess, it sounds like you want to be able to directly get a thumbnail for a shared link for an image like:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gloll316vgziw1f/Screenshot%202015-06-11%2009.47.11.png?dl=0
That's not currently possible, (the only parameters those links take are documented here), so you'd need to use the API as Leah mentioned.
- Thibaut D.11 years agoNew member | Level 2
Hi again,
Thank you for your quick answers and sorry for my delay, I was out of the office for a week.
Yes Greg, you are right about the shared link. I am frustrated to hear that it is not possible.
The thing is that I cannot use the Core API /thumbnails endpoint as the user is not connected: the aim is to be able to expose some thumbnail images to public users.
Is it in the short term roadmap?
Thanks,
Best regards - Greg-DB11 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Unfortunately I don't know if or when this might be implemented, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a request.
- Thibaut D.11 years agoNew member | Level 2
Thanks Greg,
Please tell me if you have any news!
Best,
Thibaut - Thibaut D.11 years agoNew member | Level 2
hi,
Is there any update on this request? Maybe in the api v2?
If it's still not planned, is there a way to make a feature request?
Thanks,
Best,
Thibaut
- Greg-DB11 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
No news on this, but we're already tracking this as a feature request.
One thing that may help though, if you have an API app linked to the owner of the shared link, is to use the new /metadata/link endpoint to get information about the file, and then use /thumbnails to get the thumbnail.
- Alexander P.510 years agoNew member | Level 1
Gregory, /thumbnails wants a <path>.
I couldn't (yet) figure out what it is for a shared folder file (not just usual file).
Where exactly public link goes?
- Alexander P.510 years agoNew member | Level 1
An example would be ideal.
- Greg-DB10 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Alexander, it sounds like you already sorted some of this out, so I'll follow up on the latest thread you replied on, so as not to spam others on these threads.
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