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Manmeet Kaur R.'s avatar
Manmeet Kaur R.
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10 years ago

Using ETL tool's REST utility to download a folder with REST get URL

I wish to use the etl tool's REST utility to download a file from dropbox. I read in the developer docs that we can use this URL:  https://content.dropboxapi.com/1/files/auto/<path> But how do we...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to download an entire folder at once, or files in bulk, so you'll need to iterate through the specific files you want to download. I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request though.

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