Set expiration of streamble link via /media

[Niko H.]

Hey there,

I'm using the Dropbox PHP SDK to create a streamable link via the /media API reference, by calling createTemporaryDirectLink($path) in PHP.
Is there any chance to influence the lifetime of the link I get? Or at least something to doublecheck how long the created link will be available?
Would be awesome!

Thanks in advance,
Niko

[Greg-DB]

Rafal, it sounds like you mean you'd be scraping the web site. This isn't supported, and is likely to break. (It's also against the terms.)

Instead, if you need a long lived direct link to a file, you should use the method described previously. Call /shares with short_url=false, and modify the link as shown in https://www.dropbox.com/help/201 .

If this isn't what you're trying to do, I recommend opening a new thread with the specifics of your use case/question.

[Rafal R.1]

Ah I did no know that. I will try the share option and convert the URL to the long expiry one. Do you know how long they stay alive for? 

I'm basically trying to get a direct URL for an image which will last longer than 4h. 6 months - 1 year trough your API.

[Greg-DB]

Shared links are valid until the user revokes them, either explicitly via https://www.dropbox.com/links or implicitly by moving or deleting the file.