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rustyx2
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9 years ago

How to list a shared directory via Dropbox API?

I am writing an app that needs to download all the files from a directory shared via a link. But when a link is a folder, /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file returns: HTTP/409 shared_link_is_dire...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

API v2 doesn't return the file/folder listing for shared links, e.g., in SharedLinkMetadata/FolderLinkMetadata, unfortunately. I'll send this along as a feature request though.

 

(A workaround would be to use the deprecated /1/metadata/link.)

  • rustyx2's avatar
    rustyx2
    Helpful | Level 5
    9 years ago

    Indeed, using API v1 I was able to get the file list. Thanks a lot for the tip!

     

    I only hope that API v2 will support this before v1 is disabled :-O

  • tim's avatar
    tim
    Explorer | Level 4
    9 years ago

    Hi Greg

    I am unable to migrate my app (Grab for Dropbox) to API v2 because of this issue.

    Please update us when you can deliver this for API v2 -- being able to list contents of a shared folder is a basic requirement, i'm surprised this is still missing from API v2. How are shared links supposed to be useful if you can't use the API to recurse the file structure?

    thanks

     

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      Greg-DB
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      9 years ago
      Thanks for the feedback Tim! I'll add your feedback to the feature request, and be sure to update this thread with any information if/when I have it.
      • xaphod's avatar
        xaphod
        Explorer | Level 4
        8 years ago

        Hi Greg

        Please unmark this as solved. It's not solved until this works on a version of the API that isn't about to be switched off.

        Is this working in v2 yet? My apps depend on it

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