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mukund
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Unable to download received file using my user-token

I have tried to download file which is shared to me using the user-token, Passed id of that file to download api but returns me error as 

{
  "error_summary": "path/not_found/.",
  "error": {
    ".tag": "path",
    "path": {
      ".tag": "not_found"
    }
  }
}

Is there any other way to download the files which are shared to me?

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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    5 years ago

    The /2/files/download endpoint can only download files in the connected account. "Received" files, such as listed by /2/sharing/list_received_files, aren't mounted in the connected account, and so cannot be downloaded that way.

     

    You can instead use /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file and pass in the "preview_url" as the "url" though.

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