Delete or Expire Existing Shared Links

[BobHabig]

Hi,

I have been testing the create_shared_link_with_settings endpoint, but have now been instructed to make them expire very quickly. Problem is - I don't have access to my company's actual dropbox account, so I am wondering what the best way would be to

delete the shared links I have created during testing so that they can, in the future, be created and instructed to expire rapidly enough that we should never likely have a response from the create_shared_link_with_settings endpoint saying that there is already an existing link.

If you have a suggestion for different endpoints, I am open to hearing them! (but my hands may be tied to this specific endpoint)

Thanks in advance!

[BobHabig]

We have already moved away from get_temporary_link, so that is not something I'll be using FYI 🙂

[Greg-DB]

You'll need to have access to the account to make any changes to it, e.g., to modify or revoke any existing shared links.

If you still have an active access token for the account, e.g., the one you used to make the links originally, that will be sufficient.

You can revoke existing shared links using /2/sharing/revoke_shared_link:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-revoke_shared_link

Or, you can modify existing shared links (e.g., to add or change the expiration) using /2/sharing/modify_shared_link_settings:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-modify_shared_link_setti...

[BobHabig · Accepted solution]

Thank you, Greg!

revoke sounds like the right endpoint for sure. I still do have a problem though I believe - while I do have my auth token, I do not know the URLs of the files and folders that I need to revoke. I know the filepaths, but not the URL. how should I approach this?

[Greg-DB · Accepted solution]

In that case, you can use /2/sharing/list_shared_links to look up the shared links first:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_shared_links

[BobHabig]

Fantastic. Thank you!

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