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Dropbox File shared links bulk export
I have a folder which contains over 400 images, is there any tool to copy all these images' Dropbox links in Excel one time instead of one by one?
I suggest you enable your PUBLIC folder, then load the files into a subfolder say \dropbox\public\images\example.jpg
Once done you can get your NEVER CHANGING public folder link for \dropbox\public ( looks something like https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12345678 )
And simply append the subfolder and filenames to it https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12345678/images/example.jpg
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Only thing to be careful of is if the subfolder or the filenames require web path conversions (spaces and od characters in the names etc)
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Unfortunatelyt this Public folder feature is about to be removed completely.
Normal users lose it in March 2017 and Pro and Business users in September 2017
But there is a big fight going on over this!
I don't want to mess around with the API so I just scrape the links using R
1. Put your files in a folder.
2. Get the share link for the folder.
3. Copy link.
4. Log out of dropbox.
5. Go to link.
6. Scroll alllll the way to the bottom.
7. Save page as.
8. Then you can scrape.
Example script.library(rvest) urls <- read_html("path/to/saved/page") %>% html_nodes("a") %>% html_attr("href") cat(urls[grepl("https://www.dropbox.com/sh",urls, fixed = TRUE)], sep = "\n")Dave, this is clear, concise and exactly the information I was after. Thanks you, you are a gem!
- Rich
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RedLycaste wrote:
Dave, this is clear, concise and exactly the information I was after.
Except that it's no longer valid.
The Public folder is a deprecated feature as of October 2012 and is in the middle of being phased out. Accounts created after October 2012 never received a Public folder and only Pro/Plus/Business accounts could create one. As of March of this year, any Basic account that still had an active Public folder has had it disabled and converted to a regular folder, and the same will happen to Plus and Business accounts in September of this year.
So while it may still work for you (if you have a Plus account that has a Public folder already), it won't continue to work beyond September of this year.
I would like to make an bulk export (in .csv) with all the urls of the files in a specific folder. Would that be possible?
- Mark
Not natively with Dropbox, no, but you could try writing a program via the API for you?
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