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mgravitt2
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

RAW=1 link no longer working for videos in Chrome

Hi,   For MP4 videos, when I share links, I change the dl=0 at the end of the link to raw=1.  This no longer seems to work in Google Chrome as of the past few days.    Was there something cha...
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ItayGal
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Hi,

I checked this only on video files. until about a week ago adding raw=1 to the link the browser was rendering the file directly. but now it seems to be ignored and it goes to dropbox's video preview page. I also noticed that the links has changed and now it includes also the rlkey argument.

 

I also want to mention that the link is generated using API call and not from the web  or the dropbox app.

when creating the link in the web interface it works fine, probably something has changed in the API but i can't find any documentation about it.

 

 

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Nancy
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3 years ago

Thanks for the extra info!

 

What’s the API you’re currently using to generate these shared links? 

 

If you create one instead via the Dropbox website, do you encounter the same behavior?

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    ItayGal
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago
    No, via the web interface it's working correctly.
    requested_visibility = dropbox.sharing.RequestedVisibility.public
    linkSettings = dropbox.sharing.SharedLinkSettings(requested_visibility=requested_visibility)
    try:
    shared_link_metadata = dbx.sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings(file, settings=linkSettings)
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    Nancy
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    3 years ago

    Alright; since this is something that only happens when using API, I’d definitely recommend posting about this in our API section here, so that our dedicated team can check this further for you.

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    ItayGal
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago
    Thanks

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