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WDMuc
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Zip multiple folders with Dropbox API

The Dropbox API offers the possibility to zip a single folder (/download_zip). Nice! But in the official documentation, there's no endpoint or parameter to zip multiple folders.   Is zipping of...
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WDMuc's avatar
WDMuc
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Thanks! Yes, a feature request for this would be great.

It is surprising that you can select and zip multiple folders via the Dropbox website without any problems, but the API does not allow this.

Kind regards!

Nicolas

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago

There is:

https://www.dropbox.com/2/browse_zip_downloads/get_zip_download_url

... but it's undocumented and for internal use only. 🤷

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