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xayam
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6 years ago

HTTP API and work with ZIP-archives

Hi. I wanted to know if it is possible to work with zip archives through HTTP API ? read one file from big archive, list files in subfolder and other?

Aleksey.
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    6 years ago

    No, unfortunately the Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to list/download specific files from inside a zip archive stored on Dropbox, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

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