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jjsk
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

Folder download

Per  https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/download-entire-folders  I can download any folder through the dropbox web interface.  How can I do this via the API?    I'm guessing the web client ...
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deFreitas
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Here is a workaround, you can create a sharedlink for that folder

 

curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/share_folder \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $TK" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"path": "/legacy/teste-curl","acl_update_policy": "editors","force_async": true,"member_policy": "anyone"}'

 

then download it using the preview_url

 

 

wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/sh/{shared_link_id}?dl=1

 

 

Like this example

 

 

wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j1msw4e8dup2c5q/AAANYUWXcyBDgxVGkveU7AFla?dl=1

 

 

After all you can unshare this folder for security reasons

 

 

curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/unshare_folder \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $TK" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data "{\"shared_folder_id\": \"1896934208\",\"leave_a_copy\": false}"

 

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jjsk
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago


This is nice thanks. I was also trying to decipher the download call through web client but it got a bit hairy.   The zip file comes from 

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/zip_batch?_subject_uid=<dropbox id>

  but I could not figure out in developers tools panel what all the POST parameters were.

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