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HrcKuhar's avatar
HrcKuhar
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5 years ago

Upload file using jquery

I'm trying to upload an image to dropbox using jquery, but I get an error for cors policy block. Is there another way to upload?   My code:   var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.upload.onpr...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

From your code I see you're attempting to upload to a "shared link" (the "https://www.dropbox.com/sh/..." link). That only offers the ability to read the linked content though, not the ability to upload to it.

 

To programmatically upload a file, you can use the /2/files/upload Dropbox API endpoint. You can find information on using that in the documentation here.

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