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Vincent P.9
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9 years ago

How to read a shared folder link in v2?

When I share a dropbox folder by passing a link to someone, the format is something like: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/someid/someotherid?dl=0 Here is the API to read a shared folder: https://www...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

The /2/sharing/get_folder_metadata endpoint you're referring to is for operating on shared folders, but you have a shared link (to a folder) which is a different kind of sharing functionality on Dropbox and so uses a different ID.

If you want information about a shared link, for a file or folder, you can use /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata:

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

Or to download file content from a link:

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

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