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anton_oas
6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Access file(xlsx) data programmatically
What I want to do is acess data from an .xlsx-file stored inside my dropbox with the help of some javascript and then use that data inside a graph displayed on a website. What I have done so far ...
- 6 years ago
First, if you're not already, we recommend using the official Dropbox API v2 JavaScript SDK.
Using that, if you want to directly access file data, the standard way to do so is using the filesDownload method. You can access the resulting file data via the 'fileBlob' field on the returned object, the same as shown in this example.
Or, if you need a URL directly to the file on the Dropbox servers, you can instead use the filesGetTemporaryLink method. The resulting FilesGetTemporaryLinkResult.link will be a temporary direct link to the file data on Dropbox.
Greg-DB
6 years agoDropbox Staff
First, if you're not already, we recommend using the official Dropbox API v2 JavaScript SDK.
Using that, if you want to directly access file data, the standard way to do so is using the filesDownload method. You can access the resulting file data via the 'fileBlob' field on the returned object, the same as shown in this example.
Or, if you need a URL directly to the file on the Dropbox servers, you can instead use the filesGetTemporaryLink method. The resulting FilesGetTemporaryLinkResult.link will be a temporary direct link to the file data on Dropbox.
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