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mattia o.
8 years agoNew member | Level 2
How use /get_thumbails response
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how I should use the response of the /get_thumbnail call. What I'm actually receiving are some raw data like the following: �����JFIF���������C�...
mattia o.
New member | Level 2
I'm trying the solution below but I'm not be able to display the image, could you please add a js example?
// data represents the response of the /get_thumbnail
var imgsrc='data:image/jpeg;base64,' + btoa(escape(data)); var img = new Image(100, 100); // width, height values are optional params img.src=imgsrc; document.body.appendChild(img);
Greg-DB
8 years agoDropbox Staff
[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43026363/convert-dropbox-get-thumbnail-response-to-img ]
Hi mattia o., it looks like there are some examples of doing this here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20035615/using-raw-image-data-from-ajax-request-for-data-uri
I recommend looking into using the official Dropbox API v2 JavaScript SDK though, as it may make this easier. For example, you could probably then do something like:
dbx.filesGetThumbnail({"path": "/test.jpg"}) .then(function(response) { var img = document.createElement('img'); img.src=window.URL.createObjectURL(response.fileBlob); document.body.appendChild(img); }) .catch(function(error) { console.log("got error:"); console.log(error); });
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