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elysdir
Explorer | Level 4
6 months ago

A couple of questions about get_temporary_link

Hi, folks—I’m using a team Dropbox account that has 1TB of daily bandwidth, but I’m a little unclear on how a couple of things work. Here are my questions:   1. Say I use /get_temporary_link to get...
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    Greg-DB
    6 months ago

    Regarding the timing, I was referring to when the requests to the link returned by /2/files/get_temporary_link are initiated. That is, if all 100 initiate their requests to the link before the account's links are banned, I would expect all 100 to complete. I would expect any requests initiated after the account's links are banned to fail. So, if everyone downloaded it one at a time, then yes I would expect that to start failing after 40 people. Again though, I should caveat that this implementation detail is not documented or guaranteed.

     

    Likewise, once the account's links are disabled, any further API calls to /2/files/get_temporary_link call should fail.

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