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General URL for many files from 1 shared folder
Hello community,
In my dropbox I have a folder with 200 country flags which I would like to download automatically using the respective URLs.
My problem is that the URL of every single file contains a key which is unique.
Example:
- for the USA flag the URL is https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rzateuez21i5c95/us.png?dl=0
- for the Gereat Britain flag the URL is https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/2ct7i7ov5zf6r0z/gb.png?dl=0
Every URL consists of four parts: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com s/XXXXXXXXXXXXX/ FILENAME.FILEFORMAT ?dl=0
So every shared file gets its own key s/XXXXXXXXXXXXX/ which is unique.
Is is it somehow possible to create a URL without this unique key part s/XXXXXXXXXXXXX/ ?
Something like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/us.png?dl=0
Thank you
- Dropbox API v2 now supports listing the contents of a shared link for a folder. This can be accomplished using the same interface as listing a folder in a connected user's account, via the list_folder functionality. To list the contents of a shared link for a folder, you instead provide the shared link URL in the `shared_link` parameter to list_folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder
You can also get the shared link metadata and file data using:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_shared_link_metadata
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_shared_link_file
If you're using an official SDK, there will also be corresponding methods for these endpoints.
So, you could use a shared link for a folder and then programmatically list and access the contents.
- Sanchez
Dropbox Staff
Hey @Sanchez,
thank you for your feedback.
What I'm trying to do is the following:
I'd like my code to use the dropbox URL and get files depending from the value of a variable.
My code is able to get the static part of the dropbbox URL and the variable name of the file (for example, for the Great Britain it is gb.png), but it fails to get the unique key (/s/xxxxxxxxxx).
Example: in case of Great Britain the value of the variable is "gb"
- the whole URL is https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/2ct7i7ov5zf6r0z/gb.png?dl=0
- the static part of the URL is https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ ?dl=0
- the variable part of the URL is 2ct7i7ov5zf6r0z and gb.png
My code is able to get the file name ( gb.png ) but not the unique keys ( 2ct7i7ov5zf6r0z )
Is it somehow possible to create dropbox URL without unique keys (like 2ct7i7ov5zf6r0z) ?
Thank you,
Denne
- Mark
Super User II
Is this for an app you are developing Denne?
If so I'll move this to the API area where the API team may be able to help
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