How can I get public URLs for all files within a folder?

[Vincent P.9]

Hi,

I use Dropbox to manage a photo gallery. Co-workers can change photos within the folder and I can show them on our website.

Right now, I proxy the request to get the file but that's a lot of calls and files are heavy.

Instead, I would like to embed to use the Dropbox URL directly to show photos, like:

<img src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/fn64tdfaregvefez/001.jpg" />

Is there a way to get public URLs for all files within a folder?

Thanks

[Greg-DB]

If you want to get the shared links like the one in your sample, you can use /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings to create one, if one doesn't already exist:

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

If you're using an official SDK, there will be a corresponding method for that.

Note that you'll need to call for each file in the folder that you want.

A link already exists, you can use /2/sharing/list_shared_links to retrieve it:

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

Also, note that by default, these shared links point to preview pages, not the files themselves, but you can modify them for direct access as shown here:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/force-download

[Vincent P.9]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer. I was trying it and it's extremely slow to create new links with create_shared_link_with_settings, is there a way to batch that?

Thanks!

[Greg-DB]

No, unfortunately there isn't a way to create shared links in bulk, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

[hypebaestyle]

And what about now? Did you already do it? We need to upload many photos from dropbox to our website, and if we will do it one by one - it will be very, very long process! Is there any solution to automate share links creation from folder with image files?

[Greg-DB]

@hypebaestyle No, unfortunately the Dropbox API still doesn't offer a batch shared link creation endpoint.