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Shared link to folder from another Dropbox account
Hey I'm working with getting contents from shared link provided from another dropbox account.
I know that I can get list of content using `2/files/list_folder` endpoint with the `shared_link` argument then I can use `2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata` to get downloadable links.
I have 2 questions:
- may be you can advice my any ways how I can get data from shared link with recursive: true option?
- for `get_shared_link_metadata` I should provide `path` to file unfortunately '2/files/list_folder' doesn't return this field for shared_link. What I can do with it?
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Unfortunately there isn't a way to use
recursivemode when listing via 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. You'd need to perform the recursion via your own code, by calling /2/files/list_folder[/continue] with each relevant sub-path, if you need nested entries.If you then need to call /2/sharing/get_shared_link_metadata for a particular file in the linked folder, you can build the "path" value based on the "name" values from the /2/files/list_folder[/continue] result. For example, if there's a file named "example.txt" in the folder, the path would be "/example.txt". Or if it is nested in a sub-folder named "some folder" inside the linked folder, the path would be "/some folder/example.txt".
If you just want to download a file's content directly via a shared link for a parent folder though, you can use /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file, likewise specifying the original shared link for the folder, and the sub-path built from the "name" values.
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