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Traverse a shared folder
Given a shared link (ie https://www.dropbox.com/sh/koc0ymsn8lxk2sh/AAAS28iWSscFFzg3u6bZ6QB7a?dl=0) from the account I don't own, my goal is to produce a list of download links for the files inside th...
Direct access to the binary is great, this works for the second step I want to do - thanks!
For the first step, I would still need a direct link and thumbnail if possible to render it properly. For now the solution is to construct a URL of kind `?dl=0&preview=<filename>` to have the links.
Ability to have to download links will be much appreciated - looking forward for it!
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for following up. To clarify though, I've sent this request along to the team, but I can't guarantee if or when that would be implemented.
- Greg-DB
Update: The Dropbox API now returns the shared link for the nested item as 'url' when requesting the metadata for that item using the "path" parameter on /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata (instead of the original parent link).
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