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How do I get programmatically Dropbox links of all subdirectories in a folder?

How do I get programmatically Dropbox links of all subdirectories in a folder?

tohsumi
Explorer | Level 3
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Greetings.   Our company has Dropbox Business.   We would like to get Dropbox HTML links, e.g. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/{long string}/{long string}, for each subdirectory in some folder.   There are many (> 100) folders in this subdirectory, so I would like to automate the process.   Is there a way to accomplish this?   Any program or programming language (C++, Perl, Python, etc.) is fine.   Many thanks!

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Greg-DB
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Yes, Dropbox does offer an API you can use for programmatically interacting with Dropbox lke this. You can find everything you need to get started with the Dropbox API, including documentation, tutorials, and SDKs here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers 

Specifically, to create a shared link to any file or folder, you can use the /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings endpoint:

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

Or, to list existing shared links, use /2/sharing/list_shared_links:

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

Those are links to the documentation for the HTTPS endpoints themselves, but we recommend using one of the official SDKs if possible:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation

Those have corresponding native methods for the HTTPS endpoints. 

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Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
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Yes, Dropbox does offer an API you can use for programmatically interacting with Dropbox lke this. You can find everything you need to get started with the Dropbox API, including documentation, tutorials, and SDKs here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers 

Specifically, to create a shared link to any file or folder, you can use the /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings endpoint:

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

Or, to list existing shared links, use /2/sharing/list_shared_links:

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

Those are links to the documentation for the HTTPS endpoints themselves, but we recommend using one of the official SDKs if possible:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation

Those have corresponding native methods for the HTTPS endpoints. 

tohsumi
Explorer | Level 3
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Thank you very much!

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