Get Url to Folder by ID

[LarsD]

Hello,

so we have a list with the ids for folders in the format "id:XXXXXX".

Now I need a URL to share/open for that id.

I tried https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_metadata but I only get the "parent_shared_folder_id".

Does anybody have a idea how that can work?

[Здравко]

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@LarsD wrote:

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Now I need a URL to share/open for that id.

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Hi @LarsD,

Do you mean a shared link? 🤔 If so, you can create such link using /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings API call. 😉 Just put id as path there. If link already exists for particular id, shared_link_already_exists error will get back containing the existing URL. If you know your links exist for all ids already, you can list_shared_links.

Hope this helps.

[LarsD]

Hi @Здравко,

not exactly sharing.

We have a CRM where we have customers. For each customer we have a folder in a team folder in the dropbox. And for each customer we selected the id: with the widget.

Now we want a link form our CRM to the dropbox page of these folders.

I kinda want the preview link from that:

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

But I don't have the right shared_folder_id.

[Greg-DB · Accepted solution]

Dropbox unfortunately does not offer a way to directly get a link to a folder from an ID like this, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

There are some things that may work depending on the scenario though:

• If the folder itself happens to be a shared folder, or you are able to make it a shared folder (e.g., using /2/sharing/share_folder), you could then call /2/files/get_metadata with the 'path' set to the ID of the folder to get the 'sharing_info.shared_folder_id' which is the shared folder ID, and then call /2/sharing/get_folder_metadata with that 'shared_folder_id' to get the 'preview_url'.
• You could call /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings with the 'path' set to the ID of the folder, and 'settings.audience' set to 'no_one' to get a link that would refer to the folder on the web site for anyone who has access to it, though not directly enable any additional access to it.