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vbarzokas
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

PDF thumbnail URL instead of the file

Hi, I am using the API v2 and trying to retrieve the thumbnail URL of PDF files so I can use them inside <img> tags of my HTML code. Currently I use this endpoint and headers: POST https://conten...
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cmo2
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

But your Chooser does show PDF thumbnails. So is that you're using a private API for your own file chooser, but third party devs can't access the same API for their own file pickers? 

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago
Yes, the Chooser uses a different mechanism than the Dropbox API.

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