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Is there a way to get URLs for thumbnails of photos in a shared folder, to display the images?
When I have the share url for a folder, and a user who has connected their Dropbox accopunt by OAuth, is it possible to get URLs for images in a folder, so that I can display the thumbnails in my app...
Dropbox doesn't offer a way to get URLs for thumbnails (regardless of the source being a file from a connected account or a shared link), but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
The /2/files/get_thumbnail_v2 endpoint does allow you to get a thumbnail from a shared link source, but it only returns the thumbnail data directly; there isn't a way to get a link to the thumbnail data instead.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox StaffDropbox doesn't offer a way to get URLs for thumbnails (regardless of the source being a file from a connected account or a shared link), but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
The /2/files/get_thumbnail_v2 endpoint does allow you to get a thumbnail from a shared link source, but it only returns the thumbnail data directly; there isn't a way to get a link to the thumbnail data instead.
I would appreciate this feature also.
I also would like this feature. Other cloud storage services such as OneDrive/SharePoint and Google Disk are providing URLs for thumbnails. If Dropbox could do the same, it would ease the integration with different client applications.
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