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mwatt776
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4 years ago

View File Content through API

I want to access the contents of a private file in my Dropbox account so I can display the contents on my website. I am using the files/download method and receiving the expected response outline in ...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

The /2/files/download endpoint is a "content-download" style endpoint, so the file content is returned in the response body (not a header). Refer to your client's documentation for information on how to read the data from the response body.

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