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Cannot obtain download links for files in public shared folder
Hello.
I have a link to a shared folder with thousands of photos:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/saudciiyp40kjr5/AACG9UCNAtsy0WMxuX82xGLma?dl=0
I can see and download any of them from browser without authentication, even as guest.
I need to provide download links for some of them to other application.
In my app, which has "Full Dropbox" permission type,
I'm able to use files/list_folder API call to get list of files in the folder (I use shared_link => url parameter instead of path ).
But the list doesn't contain download links for photos.
Path information also does not provided.
When I'm trying to use shared/get_file_metadata API call with any files id ( id:iTdyj36XZGAAAAAAAACN0A for example) I recieve error :
{
"error_summary": "access_error/invalid_file/...",
"error": { ".tag": "access_error", "access_error": { ".tag": "invalid_file" } }
}
On files/get_metadata I receive error:
{
"error_summary": "path/not_found/.",
"error": { ".tag": "path", "path": { ".tag": "not_found"} }
}
So, how I can obtain these download links for photos in the shared folder?
I'm afraid that's correct; there unfortunately isn't a way to do exactly what you want to do here. While you can retrieve the metadata and file content for a particular file from a shared link for a folder like this using /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file as mentioned, the Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to retrieve the download link. I'll pass this along as a feature request, but I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.
I don't see direct download link or path to a file n the result of call sharing/get_shared_link_file like I see at webpage of shared folder.
There are just meta-information and again, url to the shared folder.
I don't need to download each photo, but only provide links to download some of them to other web-application.When I click on any photo in the page: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/saudciiyp40kjr5/AACG9UCNAtsy0WMxuX82xGLma?dl=0 — I see that path in address bar changed, for example, to https://www.dropbox.com/sh/saudciiyp40kjr5/AACQtgXfdbKhNXwLG7Ki7xqya/391111_04.jpg?dl=1 and then I can just replace dl=0 to dl=1 and provide this url next.
But when I use API, how can I obtain this part of file's url: saudciiyp40kjr5/AACQtgXfdbKhNXwLG7Ki7xqya to make downloadable link from it?Seems the feature you ask for is unavailable (or deprecated for some reason -don't ask me why). Possible workaround is using https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-create_shared_link_with_settings for every one file.
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