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Olaf B.2's avatar
Olaf B.2
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

downloading a large file using python v2 API

Dear Dropboxers, would it be possible to see an example for large file download, equivalent to https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/205544836-python-upload-big-file-example for the...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    9 years ago

    It is already implemented in the Java SDK

    (It is also implemented in the API v1 Python client, but I can't recommend using that as it's deprecated.)

    If you wanted to implement it manually, or modify the Python SDK, here's a sample of what it would look like in curl for reference:

    curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
    --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/test.txt\"}" \
    --header "Range:bytes=0-2"

    That would download just the first 3 bytes of the file at /test.txt.

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