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Gavin O.2's avatar
Gavin O.2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Link to files/folder - not sharing

Hello again team, I'm attempting to write an app that will send people links to items within their Dropbox files and folders. This app makes use of the delta/metadata endpoints to discover files ...
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Lucben's avatar
Lucben
Helpful | Level 7
9 years ago

Thank you Greg, actually what I need is not exactly that. I need the image to be loaded in the browser alone. If I replace the "www" with "dl" at the beginning of the shared URL and then remove anything following the file extension, it seems to work.

I was just wondering if it's going to be a good idea in the long term, because maybe things might change over time? 

Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Unfortunately, I can't promise that modification will always work, so I can't officially recommend using it.

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