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I have an xml file which i share with my own smart TV app, but it doesn't work.
I have an xml file which i share to my own smart tv app. It has worked several years and suddenly today it doesn't work anymore. I did contact the support but they wanted me try here.. My question is...
We are rolling out a fix for issues with raw=1 and dl=1 links. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working.
Hannah
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Dropbox Community ModeratorHi from me as well, deco10 and happy Friday!
Can you let me know if the link itself previews fine when opened from a computer browser or a phone?
If it does, this might have to do with some kind of update on the TV instead.
Hi Hannah, update is off and done manually. I haven't update it sense i bought it ๐
.. As mentioned before it opens in webbrowser but it changes the url.. This didn't happen before.. It must be at Dropbox side..
- Hannah
It's been a long time since a change on the URLs of the shared links happened.
Can you take a look at this thread and the solution provided, to see if it helps?
- Hmm.. Weird, it has worked fine until this week.. And when i share and copy the url it does start like this.. https://www.dropbox.com/s
The crypted filename/filename?dl=0
I will try tomorrow with your suggestion.. I thought ? Raw=1 was the only change that was needed for render the shared link..- https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/<token>/path.jpg?rlkey=<token>&raw=1
So this one should work for me?
Where token is crypted foldername, right?
deco10 wrote:
... As mentioned before it opens in webbrowser but it changes the url.. This didn't happen before.. It must be at Dropbox side..Hi deco10,
๐ It has always been the same way! When you open regular Dropbox link in non preview mode (e.g. to download the content or in inline/raw mode), new temporary link gets generated and the former link redirect to the new one. This is the way the links (either new or old style links - with or without rlkey) has always worked. The new (temporary) link expire after few hours, as you have found already. Every time you open the former link, new temporary link is generated (on rapid succession they may coincide). So to avoid expiring, you need to pass the former link with changed dl=0 to raw=1 as is, not as resulted in the web browser (after redirect to temporary)! Let you TV generate temporary link whenever opens the former link there; so everytime the temporary link will be valid. ๐
There is one more trick you can use: just set the link domain to dl.dropboxusercontent.com without changing anything else.
Hope this helps.
Well, the way my url was worked fine until this week.. Can you explain why?
Also i tried this methods without any success
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/<token>/path.jpg?rlkey=<token>&raw=1
https://dl.Dropboxusercontent/scl/fi/9mmmmgfddj34g/path.xml?rlkey=9mmmmgfddj34g&raw=1
Where in this case 9mmmmgfddj34g is jibrish
Before this weekend i had something like this
Https://www.dropbox.com/s/9mmmmgfddj34g/path.xml?raw=1When i try this with chrome, the new way is downloading the file. The old way is rendering.. But the url is changed as i mentioned before..
I deleted the sharing and added again.. Suddenly the new version of url sharing was there..
Https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bdgfshgjjg123/myfile.xml?rlkey=hgfhhfhhkj&dl=0
Where i change the last to raw=1
It's rendering in chrome as it did with the old way.. But its redirecting to different url and that makes problem because my tv can not follow that..
Tried also with dl.dropb.. And dl.Dropboxusercontent
Any other suggestions that dont redirect to, without http 302 redirectinghttps://ucea67gdjjhxvhc.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/cd/0/inline/gggghhhddfuugjjgghhh/file#
Https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/token/path.xml?rlkey=tlkeytoken&dl=0 will only download the file
Dl=1 will also download the file
Tried also scl/fo..raw=1 Its doing 302 redirecting.. Dl=0 in chrome works but it seems that only dropbox page with login opens..
Also i hope this rlkey token will not change!
hi there,
Sorry for potentially noob question but Im trying to understand this issue better.
Im struggling to understand why some of my dropbox videos can be embedded on the page and other not. Im sharing the video, generating link, changing dl=0 to raw=1 and still 50% of the videos works like this and 50% does not. Links generated are completely different and Im sure it has something to do with that. they both work on dropbox, both open in browser when copy-paste generated code but one can be embedded on toy website and one not:
example of Link whihc is not working:
removed
help!
Wow... lukaszg, You just find out something very interesting and stupid - all new links are no more raw!!! Hope this is some confusion and bug that will be fixed soon! Otherwise - no more new embedded links. Hope this is not something intentional by Dropbox.
The reason of inability to embed is that, as seems, all new links don't point to raw content directly (or after redirection), but to a HTML content that on its own redirects. Most of the audio/video players (including browser embedded players) cannot recognize HTML content as something that can be played and they don't expect to be redirection inside (so just they skip it).
RIP for the media links if stay so. ๐ฏ๐ก
Again - let's hope this is just some confusion and stupid move.
