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Bob A.3
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10 years ago
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Saving URL to act as a URL Redirect?

I would like to be able to make a share link to a Dropbox file that itself contains a URL such that when the user executes the first link in their browser the end result is that the URL stored in the...
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  • Richard P.'s avatar
    Richard P.
    10 years ago

    Yes, just fire off a GET request (via ajax or fetch, or your favourite http lib) to the exact public url for the file.

    Ensure the file is structured as JSON, and you should be able to either directly read the response as JSON, or you may have to JSON.parse() it, and theres your data. 

    Then do your favourite JS redirect.

    The only issue is that the .html file which triggers all that cannot be stored on Dropbox as a public or shared link, it has to be stored elsewhere.

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DaveC2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Unless things have changed lately (and thats not impossible!), you would want to create a link to a html page that is stored in your dropbox, and that html page has a html redirector instruction.

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