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Sumit V.'s avatar
Sumit V.
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10 years ago

Upload larger file using Core API

My shop is working with PHP-MVC. i have used dropbox API to upload files from my computer. But now due to long files user have to wait until file uploading is completed now how can i do this uplo...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

The Dropbox API offers two different ways to upload files. The simplest is using the /files_put endpoint:

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

For files larger than 150 MB though, you should use the chunked uploading endpoints:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#chunked-upload
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#commit-chunked-upload

In either case, you can process the upload in the background, but exactly how you do that will depend on your setup and isn't exactly related to the Dropbox API. E.g., you may want to kick off a background process/thread to do the upload.

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