Not found error when creating shared link

[foongzy]

Hi all, I have a backend hosted in pythonanywhere that has this code snippet. It basically uploads the file and creates a sharing link from that uploaded file.

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(dropboxToken)
filename = "/dates/"+request.data['name']
dbx.files_upload(request.data['picture'].read(), filename, mute=True)
getLink = dbx.sharing_create_shared_link(filename, short_url=False, pending_upload=None) ​

 This code used to work for years until 1-2 months ago but now just throws an error:

dropbox.exceptions.ApiError: ApiError('1f0a4024a5c24ad09d3e9bc12d2d0e77', CreateSharedLinkError('path', LookupError('not_found', None)))

The file still uploads (I verified in UI) but it somehow can't find that file when trying to create the shared link. As I said, this code worked fine previously and no changes was made in the code. Can anyone help/advise? Thanks.

[Здравко · Accepted solution]

Hi @foongzy,

It's good idea to dump your var 'filename'. I tried to  reproduce your issue but everything works (despite sharing_create_shared_link is deprecated already). Let's see if the filename is some special case.

PS: By the way something aside - it's time to think of moving to use refresh token! No long lived access token is issued already, but only short lived. If you need to reissue your access token, it wouldn't work anymore. Just keep in mind.

[foongzy]

Hi @Здравко,
Yea, I tried the same code in jupyter notebook and it worked, that's why found it weird. I did more digging and changed sharing_create_shared_link to
sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings and it works now. Not too sure what hidden issues prevented sharing_create_shared_link from working. And yes, I am using refresh token to initialise Dropbox. Thanks for the help and tips!

[foongzy]

Hi @Здравко,

Yea, I tried the same code in jupyter notebook and it worked fine too, not sure what's wrong. I did more digging and changed sharing_create_shared_link to sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings and it works. Not sure what hidden issues prevented the other from working. And yes I am using refresh token. Thanks for the help and tips!