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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 witho...
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.
Ohh... I misunderstood. In such a case, I don't know any useful move. Greg-DB might provide some workaround or, at least, accepts the above as a feature request.
Good luck.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffI'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.
- Greg-DB
Update: The Dropbox API now returns the shared link for the nested item as 'url' when requesting the metadata for that item using the "path" parameter on /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata (instead of the original parent link).
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