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    <title>topic Re: PDF thumbnail URL instead of the file in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/PDF-thumbnail-URL-instead-of-the-file/m-p/289921#M17753</link>
    <description>Yes, the Chooser uses a different mechanism than the Dropbox API.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:09:46 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-08-09T16:09:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>PDF thumbnail URL instead of the file</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/PDF-thumbnail-URL-instead-of-the-file/m-p/289157#M17707</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi, I am using the API v2 and trying to retrieve the thumbnail URL of PDF files so I can use them inside &amp;lt;img&amp;gt; tags of my HTML code.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Currently I use this endpoint and headers:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_thumbnail&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;Authorization: Bearer &amp;lt;access token&amp;gt;
Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path": "/&amp;lt;path to file&amp;gt;.pdf", "format": "jpeg", "size": "w64h64", "mode": "strict"}&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;and as a response I get the binary data of the file itself, so in my use case I have to download it, store it and then provide it in my HTML code as an image link, which is not optimal and I would like to avoid.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I wonder if there is any other endpoint or option that can give me back a Dropbox API hosted URL of the thumbnail instead of the file itself.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thank you,&lt;BR /&gt;Vassilis&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;PS: The documentation page at &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_thumbnail" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_thumbnail&lt;/A&gt; is&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;kind of outdated as it looks like it refers to a previous API version which was returning a JSON object.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 09:11:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>vbarzokas</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-29T09:11:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: PDF thumbnail URL instead of the file</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/PDF-thumbnail-URL-instead-of-the-file/m-p/289206#M17708</link>
      <description>No, unfortunately the Dropbox API does not offer thumbnail links, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Also the documentation at &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_thumbnail" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_thumbnail&lt;/A&gt; is correct. Note that this is a "Content-download" style endpoint. The "ENDPOINT FORMAT" section in that documentation indicates that, and links to more documentation that explains that format. (In short, it returns metadata as JSON in a response header, and the requested data in the response body.)</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2018 16:00:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/PDF-thumbnail-URL-instead-of-the-file/m-p/289206#M17708</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-06T16:00:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: PDF thumbnail URL instead of the file</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/PDF-thumbnail-URL-instead-of-the-file/m-p/289636#M17743</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;But your Chooser does show PDF thumbnails. So is that you're using a private API for your own file chooser, but third party devs can't access the same API for their own file pickers?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/PDF-thumbnail-URL-instead-of-the-file/m-p/289636#M17743</guid>
      <dc:creator>cmo2</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-08T10:41:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: PDF thumbnail URL instead of the file</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/PDF-thumbnail-URL-instead-of-the-file/m-p/289921#M17753</link>
      <description>Yes, the Chooser uses a different mechanism than the Dropbox API.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:09:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/PDF-thumbnail-URL-instead-of-the-file/m-p/289921#M17753</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-09T16:09:46Z</dc:date>
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