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camg55
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6 years ago

Direct Media Link are expiring...

Hey Community.    Quick context: I'm pulling a file from a Jot Form to Airtable to Dropbox via Zapier. The last part of my Zap is dropping a "direct media link" in airtable as a URL lnk field tha...
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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Based on the description and output here, it sounds like this integration is using the /2/files/get_temporary_link endpoint. The links from this endpoint are supposed to expire, and are only meant for temporary use.

 

If you need non-temporary links, you should use shared links instead, which an app can get via /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings. That's a change the developer of the app would need to make though (which seems to be Zapier, in this case), so you may want to ask them to do so. (These links can be modified for "direct" access, if needed.)

  • camg55's avatar
    camg55
    New member | Level 2
    6 years ago

    Hey Greg, 

     

    Intesting... yeah, that makes sense. 

     

    What's annoying about it, is for some reason Zapier gives me a short link, so I can't edit what it has within it after I drop it in airtable via a formula... I've reached out to zapier, to see if they can do something, but in a perfect world i'd just force download it with a formuma on my own...

     

    • sahir's avatar
      sahir
      New member | Level 2
      5 years ago

      Same issue here.. I have tickets open with both Zapier and Dropbox. Any luck with this?

       

      Exactly the same conclusion they give a short link so cant append it. I hope zapier does something

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        5 years ago

        sahir I don't have anything to add on the Dropbox side. The Dropbox API still offers both of these pieces of functionality, so it would be up to Zapier to update their implementation.

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