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Getting download URLs from shared folders
My client has a partnership with a photographer who dumps images in a dropbox folder that is shared. It can be accessed through /sh/... link. For dropbox to work in our solution I need to be able to ...
Gregory, v1 does not have urls to download files. Tried with "public link" url, gives me entries like this:
rualpe-ws:seene-dropbox-experiments paf$ curl -s -d "client_id=$client_id&client_secret=$client_secret&link=https://www.dropbox.com/sh/02pygaow396w775/AAC8ycNc44-87K0To_xeEsLca?dl=0&list=true&path=/Sample Album" -XPOST https://api.dropbox.com/1/metadata/link |jq .
...
{
"rev": "80b8dedbf",
"thumb_exists": true,
"path": "/Sample Album/Pensive Parakeet.jpg",
"is_dir": false,
"client_mtime": "Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:32:58 +0000",
"icon": "page_white_picture",
"bytes": 480098,
"modified": "Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:44:16 +0000",
"size": "468.8 KB",
"root": "link",
"mime_type": "image/jpeg"
}
I'm after links to thumbnails and links to file previews.
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