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buttflattery
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Detect if a file is an image

I am integrating the dropbox API in my application extension which is a filemanager. I need to check if the file saved on the dropbox server is an image or not. Reason why i need is that i cache the...
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    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    Right, to be clear, the include_media_info parameter is only deprecated on /2/files/list_folder, not /2/files/get_metadata. And yes, for a substantial number of files, calling /2/files/get_metadata for each one would not be very efficient.

    And that's correct, for the second option I am referring to parsing the file extension from the `name`. And yes, the issue you refer to are the false positives I mentioned.

    No, Dropbox does not validate that a file's extension and content match. The client sets the filename and extension when sending the data, and Dropbox will not reject it if it looks it doesn't match.

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