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Dropbox's code example for sharing a file link in Python not working
#Python code provided by Dropbox import requests import json url = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata" headers = { "Authorization": "Bearer append-current-toke...
cristrod817, as Greg pointed out, 'url' parameter is missing in your request and of course, the error message, you're receiving, notes the same. Take a look once again in the link you post above. There are 3 parameters - 1 mandatory and 2 optional. You have put only one of the optional params. 🙂 Where is the link you want to check metadata for? That's it.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffCan you let me know where you found or received this code so I can check on that?
In any case, is this the actual/exact code you're running? When I plug in an access token, and add the missing "," in the 'headers' object that otherwise causes a SyntaxError, I actually get the different error "Error in call to API function "sharing/get_shared_link_metadata": request body: missing required field 'url'" which would be expected in this case for this code, as the /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata endpoint requires a 'url' parameter.
The code was found in Dropbox https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-api-v2-explorer/#sharing_get_shared_link_metadata
Select View Request as Python Request (Requests Library)
and it gives this error:
{ "error_summary": "shared_link_not_found/", "error": { ".tag": "shared_link_not_found" } }Please provide the appropriate code. Thank you. The path does exist. Check my prior replies.
cristrod817, as Greg pointed out, 'url' parameter is missing in your request and of course, the error message, you're receiving, notes the same. Take a look once again in the link you post above. There are 3 parameters - 1 mandatory and 2 optional. You have put only one of the optional params. 🙂 Where is the link you want to check metadata for? That's it.
- Greg-DB
Thanks for clarifying! That's correct, the /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata endpoint does require the 'url' parameter. That endpoint is a way to get information about a Dropbox shared link, so you need to include the Dropbox shared link in the call. The 'path' parameter can additionally be supplied to request information about a particular item relative to the folder, if the shared link itself is for a folder.
In my testing, the API v2 Explorer "Python request (requests library)" option for that endpoint is correctly including the 'url' parameter, and likewise I wasn't able to reproduce the original "request body is empty" error with this code, so it sounds like you were using a modified version of that code.
Anyway, it looks like you've got this sorted out now, but let us know if you need help with anything else.
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