Discuss Dropbox Developer & API
I have uploaded a video to the dropbox, and I want to host this video on my html website, while the video itself will be in the dropbox. Is it possible to do this?
Unfortunately there isn't really a good way to do this via the Dropbox API, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
Currently, you could retrieve the video data via /2/files/download, but you'd need to pass that through your server anyway to avoid exposing your access token client-side.
Alternatively, you could technically get a shared link for the file using /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings, and modify it for direct access so you can pass that to a video player. That would be subject to bandwidth limits though.
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