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    <title>topic Re: How to get the valid url using dropbox api media endpoint.? in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203539#M9729</link>
    <description>The API is returning a valid URL for me. Can you share a sample URL that's giving you trouble? Thanks in advance!</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:26:47 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2017-01-24T03:26:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How to get the valid url using dropbox api media endpoint.?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203469#M9714</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Goal is to play audio file from dropbox. Using dropbox python sdk I can get the folders and files but the `media` doesn't have valid file to play with.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; def post(self, request):&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; request_body = json.loads(request.body)&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; path = request_body['path']&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; client = helper.dropbox_client(request.user.profile.dropbox_access_token)&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; media_info = client.media(path=path)&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; return JsonResponse(media_info, safe=True)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The `media_info` have the dict contains `url` but that is not valid means it not playing the content.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;How do make that work ?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 09:26:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203469#M9714</guid>
      <dc:creator>rajasimon</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-29T09:26:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to get the valid url using dropbox api media endpoint.?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203476#M9715</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;[Cross-linking for reference:&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41807719/how-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint" target="_blank"&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41807719/how-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint&lt;/A&gt; ]&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Can you elaborate on what the issue you're running in to with the URL is? Are you getting an error?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:36:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203476#M9715</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-01-23T18:36:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to get the valid url using dropbox api media endpoint.?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203532#M9726</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;After getting the response from Dropbox. I insert that url into audio player and seems it's not playing. The URL is not valid. If I copy paste that url into address bar it's not playing. My safari audio player simply shows &lt;STRONG&gt;Error&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Codes:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;// HTML&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;lt;audio id="awesome-player" controls="" autoplay=""&amp;gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;lt;source id="mp3" src="" type="audio/mpeg"&amp;gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Your browser does not support the audio tag.&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;lt;/audio&amp;gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;// Javascript&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;var awesomePlayer = document.getElementById('awesome-player');&lt;BR /&gt;awesomePlayer.src=json.url;&lt;BR /&gt;awesomePlayer.play();&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 01:49:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203532#M9726</guid>
      <dc:creator>rajasimon</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-01-24T01:49:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to get the valid url using dropbox api media endpoint.?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203539#M9729</link>
      <description>The API is returning a valid URL for me. Can you share a sample URL that's giving you trouble? Thanks in advance!</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:26:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203539#M9729</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-01-24T03:26:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to get the valid url using dropbox api media endpoint.?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203556#M9736</link>
      <description>Thanks for the reply. This is the url I'm getting in the response.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/1/view/npfkvmyekl783z9/wave.mp3" target="_blank"&gt;https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/1/view/npfkvmyekl783z9/wave.mp3&lt;/A&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 05:46:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203556#M9736</guid>
      <dc:creator>rajasimon</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-01-24T05:46:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to get the valid url using dropbox api media endpoint.?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203558#M9737</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks! That's a valid URL, and it is responding successfully:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;$ curl -v "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/1/view/npfkvmyekl783z9/wave.mp3" &amp;gt; wave.mp3

&amp;gt; GET /1/view/npfkvmyekl783z9/wave.mp3 HTTP/1.1
&amp;gt; Host: dl.dropboxusercontent.com
&amp;gt; User-Agent: curl/7.42.1
&amp;gt; Accept: */*

&amp;lt; HTTP/1.1 200 OK
&amp;lt; Server: nginx
&amp;lt; Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 05:54:26 GMT
&amp;lt; Content-Type: audio/mpeg
&amp;lt; Content-Length: 478
&amp;lt; Connection: keep-alive
&amp;lt; content-disposition: inline; filename="wave.mp3"; filename*=UTF-8''wave.mp3
&amp;lt; set-cookie: uc_session=X8hTm61TndsDEYzqACTPuaZ66N7IjRoiESu0zqv42e3rOcWV3WuNCQRDzYGUKSPS; Domain=dropboxusercontent.com; httponly; Path=/; secure
&amp;lt; accept-ranges: bytes
&amp;lt; etag: 11n
&amp;lt; x-dropbox-request-id: 1e0a8355c6effc46ece87bdf30885895
&amp;lt; pragma: public
&amp;lt; cache-control: max-age=60
&amp;lt; X-Server-Response-Time: 173
&amp;lt; X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex
&amp;lt;
{ [478 bytes data]

$ cat wave.mp3
bplist00�_WebMainResource�


_WebResourceData_WebResourceMIMEType_ebResourceTextEncodingName^WebResourceURL_WebResourceFrameNameO�&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;video controls="" autoplay="" name="media" style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;source src="http://www.sample-videos.com/audio/mp3/wave.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/video&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;Zaudio/mpegUUTF-8_/http://www.sample-videos.com/audio/mp3/wave.mp3P
�&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The linked file is&amp;nbsp;only 478 bytes though, so it's probably not the data you actually want. Looking at the data itself, it doesn't seem to actually be mp3 data, but rather a webarchive file. You should go back to where you were trying to get the mp3 file and save the actual mp3 file.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 06:01:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-get-the-valid-url-using-dropbox-api-media-endpoint/m-p/203558#M9737</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-01-24T06:01:01Z</dc:date>
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