How do I create a shared link with expiry date from API (Python SDK)?

[Florian K.8]

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs/python#DropboxClient.share

[Greg-DB]

The Dropbox API doesn't currently offer a way to set a custom expiration on shared links, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.

[Peter K.11]

what about setting the password on shared links ? 

[Greg-DB]

That's also not currently available, but I'll pass that along as a request as well.

[Daniel B.70]

Is there any expected/known timeline for this?

Thanks!

[Greg-DB]

This is now possible using the /sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings endpoint on API v2:

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

In the latest version of the Python SDK, that's the sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings method:

https://dropbox-sdk-python.readthedocs.org/en/master/moduledoc.html#dropbox.dropbox.Dropbox.sharing_...

[Daniel B.70]

Oh! great, I was looking at v1 docs. Thank you very much!

[Russell A.1]

sorry to revive this, but can someone show an example of how to pass settings here? Like:

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox("KEY")
dbx.users_get_current_account()
print dbx.sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings('link/to/share', ????)

I'm not sure how to pass the settings, like requested_visibility or link_password.

[Greg-DB]

Sure, this creates a shared link for a file and also supplies a requested visibility and expiration in the settings:

import datetime

import dropbox

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox("<ACCESS_TOKEN>")

expires = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(days=30)
requested_visibility = dropbox.sharing.RequestedVisibility.team_only
desired_shared_link_settings = dropbox.sharing.SharedLinkSettings(requested_visibility=requested_visibility, expires=expires)

shared_link_metadata = dbx.sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings("/test.txt", settings=desired_shared_link_settings)

print(shared_link_metadata)

<ACCESS_TOKEN> should be replaced with the access token.

The dropbox.sharing.SharedLinkSettings constructor also takes a link_password parameter.

[Russell A.1]

okay that's great.  thank you so much.  that really put that in perspective!