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Folder download
Per https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/download-entire-folders I can download any folder through the dropbox web interface. How can I do this via the API?
I'm guessing the web client uses some form of API for this so this should be doable from scripts as well?
Thanks
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
The Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to download entire folders like this, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request. (The Dropbox web site uses a different, internal interface for this.)I think this would be nice resource saving feature. I've seen all kinds of recursive download scripts that basically inundate the dropbox API with requests for each individual file. Seems rather inefficient. Thanks.
Here is a workaround, you can create a sharedlink for that folder
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/share_folder \ --header "Authorization: Bearer $TK" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{"path": "/legacy/teste-curl","acl_update_policy": "editors","force_async": true,"member_policy": "anyone"}'then download it using the preview_url
wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/sh/{shared_link_id}?dl=1Like this example
wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j1msw4e8dup2c5q/AAANYUWXcyBDgxVGkveU7AFla?dl=1
After all you can unshare this folder for security reasons
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/unshare_folder \ --header "Authorization: Bearer $TK" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data "{\"shared_folder_id\": \"1896934208\",\"leave_a_copy\": false}"
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