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Shared Link - Download in .NET
I have a shared link to a folder with one 20GB zip file inside of it. I am trying to download that file using the .NET SDK. I tried the following
Using dbx = New DropboxClient(accessToken)
Dim link = New SharedLink(url)
Dim folderRes = dbx.Files.ListFolderAsync("", sharedLink:=link).GetAwaiter().GetResult()
Dim fl = folderRes.Entries(0).AsFile()
dbx.Files.DownloadAsync(fl.PathLower)
End Using
this worked to get the FileMetadata but fl.PathLower is null so I could not get the file this way
Then I tried
Dim res = dbx.Sharing.GetSharedLinkFileAsync(url).GetAwaiter.GetResult()but that didn't work as it's a folder, not a file. I tried getting a link to the file but I only have a preview link so that didn't work either
I am new to the Dropbox API. Can anyone assist me in this?
Following up here as well in case others run into the same question in the future. Even though we’ve already provided this in our direct reply to you.
You can download a file from a shared folder via the API using /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file by:
- Setting the 'url' parameter to the shared folder link, and
- Setting the 'path' parameter to the relative path of the file within that shared folder.
With the shared folder URL in 'url' and the file’s relative path in 'path', the endpoint should return the file content as expected.
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- DB-Des
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Following up here as well in case others run into the same question in the future. Even though we’ve already provided this in our direct reply to you.
You can download a file from a shared folder via the API using /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file by:
- Setting the 'url' parameter to the shared folder link, and
- Setting the 'path' parameter to the relative path of the file within that shared folder.
With the shared folder URL in 'url' and the file’s relative path in 'path', the endpoint should return the file content as expected.
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