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bharath_n_v
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Download compressed file

Hi,   is there any possibility of compressing files and then downloading using some header or something like that through apis https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

No, the Dropbox API doesn't offer compression on file downloads/exports like this, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

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