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Is there an API for downloading shared files?
Hi,
I'm writing a program in Swift/Objective-c to download a file that is shared on Dropbox. I have a link to the shared file. Does Dropbox allow such a download? Is there a Dropbox API for this operation? If there's no Dropbox API, does the normal URL request API's work with Dropbox? I have tried iOS NSURLConnection with no success, although I'm novice in Http connection programming. I would appreciate your help. Thanks!
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
You can modify Dropbox share links for different behaviors, e.g., to return the file content, as shown here:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/201
You can then issue a standard HTTPS GET request to download the raw content from the link.
Thanks, I'll try it.
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