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Alex-Mason-1982
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7 years ago
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View a file using a authentication token

I have a general question.  Is it possible using the dropbox api to view a file using an authentication token rather than logging in? I am creating a website that uses dropbox to store documents tha...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    7 years ago

    Thanks for writing this up. The Dropbox API doesn't offer anything quite like what you describe, but I'll be happy to pass this along as a feature request.

    To clarify a bit first though, do you mean that you would want the user to be able to go view the file on www.dropbox.com with the Dropbox file viewer web page like they would normally from the official Dropbox web site file listing, or do you just want a link that would return the file data directly, without the Dropbox file viewer web page?

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

Thanks for writing this up. The Dropbox API doesn't offer anything quite like what you describe, but I'll be happy to pass this along as a feature request.

To clarify a bit first though, do you mean that you would want the user to be able to go view the file on www.dropbox.com with the Dropbox file viewer web page like they would normally from the official Dropbox web site file listing, or do you just want a link that would return the file data directly, without the Dropbox file viewer web page?

  • Alex-Mason-1982's avatar
    Alex-Mason-1982
    Explorer | Level 4
    7 years ago

    Hello Greg

    Yea.  Viewing it on the dropbox site is what I imagined.  Efectively a security layer between public and user login that uses credentails from a server rather than from the user. (A server request that generates a temporary link maybe?  Depends on how you want to handle it).

    Thanks for the reply. For now ill just use the downloading function and ill keep an eye out for this as a feature for future projects.  

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      7 years ago

      Thanks for clarifying! I'm sending this along as a feature request, though I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.

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