You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
Can I use Dropbox as a CDN?
Exact same inquiry: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Can-I-use-Dropbox-as-a-CDN/idi-p/115941
XP wrote:
Serve website images from Dropbox by retrieving its image URL with APIYou don't need the API to do this. Just get a share link to the image like you would for any other file type, and then change the end of the URL as explained in this help article (change ?dl=0 to ?raw=1).
Again, as Jay explained, share links have a limited amount of bandwidth per day, and if you're linking to large files it could be very easy to exceed that limit and have ALL of your links banned temporarily. Simply put, while you can serve files out of Dropbox, it is not a CDN and you probably shouldn't use it as one. A CDN is usually a network of servers in different geographical locations so that content is served to the user using the closest source. With Dropbox, the data will all come from the same source (i.e., NOT a true CDN).
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staff- Serve website images from Dropbox by retrieving its image URL with API
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Photos-and-videos/How-to-get-url-with-jpg-end-and-what-works-with-img-tags/m-p/245440/highlight/true#M11823- Rich
Super User II
XP wrote:
Serve website images from Dropbox by retrieving its image URL with APIYou don't need the API to do this. Just get a share link to the image like you would for any other file type, and then change the end of the URL as explained in this help article (change ?dl=0 to ?raw=1).
Again, as Jay explained, share links have a limited amount of bandwidth per day, and if you're linking to large files it could be very easy to exceed that limit and have ALL of your links banned temporarily. Simply put, while you can serve files out of Dropbox, it is not a CDN and you probably shouldn't use it as one. A CDN is usually a network of servers in different geographical locations so that content is served to the user using the closest source. With Dropbox, the data will all come from the same source (i.e., NOT a true CDN).
- MarkTo also add in to this that there is no way of monitoring the number of downloads etc. on a file, so, you'll have no idea if the files been download or how many times if you are wanting to limit or restrict it etc.
