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ultralame
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Retrieve a public link in the dl.dropbox.com format, not www.dropbox.com

Hello,   I am using Dropbox as a halfway point to upload files to a third party service.  They don't provide upload capability via their API, rather I need to provide a publicly accessible URL wi...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago

Hi ultralame,

You are converting initial link to download link. Seems like Dropbox serve all downloads as binary data (doesn't matter actual type). One simple solution is instead of converting to download link to convert the link to raw link (replace '?dl=0' to '?raw=1'). If your target service require download (i.e. inspects HTTP 'content-disposition' header), then you can use temporary link. 😉 In both cases content type is guessed correctly (typically).

Good luck.

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