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ozdev
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Unable to retrieve preview for CSV file
Hey All.
I'm attempting to fetch an HTML preview for a CSV file using the `/get_preview` endpoint. Unfortunately I'm receiving back an `unsupported_extension` error. Maybe my understanding is wrong? Appreciate any suggestions.
Reviewed the following documentation:
Dropbox `get_preview` Documentation
Curl request using 'get_preview' resulting in error:
vagrant@vagrant:$ curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_preview \ --header "Authorization: Bearer [truncated]" \ --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/items/24157/18365.catalog-items.csv\"}" {"error_summary": "unsupported_extension/", "error": {".tag": "unsupported_extension"}}
Curl request using 'download' resulting in success:
vagrant@vagrant:$ curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \ --header "Authorization: Bearer [truncated]" \ --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/items/24157/18365.catalog-items.csv\"}" "created_at", "currency", "description", "discountable", "id", "metadata", "name", "object", "taxable", "taxes", "type", "unit_cost" {...} "1546048185", "usd", "Overpayment on order after adjustments", "", "overpayment-reconciliation", "", "OVERPAYMENT RECONCILIATION", "catalog_item", "", "", "", "0"
My understanding is that the API should return HTML data when requesting CSV files from the 'get_preview' endpoint.
Thanks in advance.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for the report! This looks like a bug on our side. We're looking into it and I'll let you know when we have an update on it.
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