Webpage that lists contents of shared, public dropbox folder

[Cross-linking for reference:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32030105/dropbox-api-listing-content-of-shared-public-folder ]

The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. However, it is technically possible to connect to just one account. The SDKs don't offer explicit support for it and we don't recommend doing so, for various technical and security reasons. Most of these concerns are allayed for server-side apps though, where you can protect the access token server-side.

So if you did want to go this route, instead of kicking off the authorization flow, you would manually use an existing access token for your account. (Just be careful not to revoke it, e.g. via https://www.dropbox.com/account/security .)

For example, using the Java SDK, you could initialize a client using a hard coded access token for your own account using this constructor.

From there you can make the normal calls to list and download files.