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How to download files from a publicly shared folder?
We developed an app using an endpoint from v1 /1/metadat/link (to list all from a shared link). I couldn't find any endpoint from v2 having same functionality.
My app has a simple a functionality, given a shared link it should download all the files from this shared link. Any help would be appreciated.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
I don't currently have a solution to offer for this on API v2 unfortunately. I just replied to your ticket though and granted your app an extension. Please check the reply there for details.- Greg-DBFor reference, 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
If you're using an official SDK, there will also be a corresponding method for this endpoint:
In the .NET SDK that's available as `ListFolderAsync`:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/M_Dropbox_Api_Files_Routes_FilesUserRoutes_ListFolderAsync_1.htm
In the Java SDK that's available via `listFolderBuilder` to get a `ListFolderBuilder` on which you can call `ListFolderBuilder.withSharedLink`:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v3.0.x/com/dropbox/core/v2/files/DbxUserFilesRequests.html#listFolderBuilder-java.lang.String-
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v3.0.x/com/dropbox/core/v2/files/ListFolderBuilder.html
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v3.0.x/com/dropbox/core/v2/files/ListFolderBuilder.html#withSharedLink-com.dropbox.core.v2.files.SharedLink-
In the JavaScript SDK that's available as `filesListFolder`:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-js/Dropbox.html#filesListFolder__anchor
In the Python SDK that's available as `files_list_folder`:
https://dropbox-sdk-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/moduledoc.html#dropbox.dropbox.Dropbox.files_list_folder
In the Swift SDK that's available as `listFolder`:
https://dropbox.github.io/SwiftyDropbox/api-docs/latest/Classes/FilesRoutes.html#/s:13SwiftyDropbox11FilesRoutesC10listFolderAA10RpcRequestCyAA0C0C04ListF16ResultSerializerCAH0if5ErrorK0CGSS4path_Sb9recursiveSb16includeMediaInfoSb0O7DeletedSb0O24HasExplicitSharedMembersSb0O14MountedFolderss6UInt32VSg5limittF
In the Objective-C SDK that's available as `listFolder`:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-obj-c/api-docs/latest/Classes/DBFILESUserAuthRoutes.html#/c:objc(cs)DBFILESUserAuthRoutes(im)listFolder:I'm having the same issue. I have a shared_link to a folder and I'd like to enumerate each file in that folder and be able to download each one independently.
I'm using the Javascript version of the SDK.
So I'm calling
filesListFolder({url: "", shared_link: {url: myURL}}and that returns a list of file metadata but I cannot figure out a way to go from that response and the data in each file's metadata to something I can use with the filesDownload (id seems surprisingly not-useful for non-mounted content) or any of the sharing download functions (which all require an URL for each file which is not something in the response).
How can I do this?
