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How to get all shared links in a folder?
For example if I have 5 files in folder /images, how list all the shared links? And I dont want to share the folder. /images 1.jpg 2.jpg ... 5.jpg I tried https://www.dropbox....
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThe Dropbox API unfortunately doesn't offer a way to retrieve all shared links for items inside a specific folder, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
Using /2/sharing/list_shared_links with a specific path only "returns a list of all shared links that allow access to the given path - direct links to the given path and links to parent folders of the given path", so you'd need to either:
- call /2/sharing/list_shared_links once for each specific file, or
- not specify a path, and then do the filtering client-side for items under that path
Hey! Does Dropbox API have any changes? I wanna get downloadable link of items inside folders, Is it possible to get it in one API request? Currently I'm using get_shared_link_metadata endpoint and it works really long for the big amount of records because i should make request for each item.
- Greg-DB
kuznetsovvl No, unfortunately I don't have any changes to report for this feature request.
any changes or updated within the api to support listing the sharing links for a shared folder?
DoControl wrote:any changes or updated within the api to support listing the sharing links for a shared folder?
Hi DoControl,
You are asking something different than the OP! Listing of a folder pointed by a shared link was and is possible/supported. Unfortunately, the information provided by /2/files/list_folder doesn't contain nested links info. You should process one by one all nested entries to receive the nested entries links (something relatively slow, as was mentioned). 🤷 That's it.
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