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Sharing files from chooser
Hi All!
I need an unusual feature on my site. Users can upload files from Dropbox using the Chooser. After uploading these files should be sometimes compared to their originals in Dropbox and conditionally updated. As I understand, I need shared links to files for that. Is it possible to get shared links from Chooser? Or may be generate them automatically by JS on the same page? I do not want to enforce users to generate shared links for each file separately: they will not be happy! Is there any solution?
If you implement the Dropbox Chooser on your web site and use the "preview" link type, the Chooser will return a shared link for each file selected by the user.
As long as the user doesn't delete the file or revoke the link, a shared link will stay valid so your app can recheck it for changes occasionally without further manual user interaction.
If you need a deeper integration than that though, you'd need to use the Dropbox API instead.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
If you implement the Dropbox Chooser on your web site and use the "preview" link type, the Chooser will return a shared link for each file selected by the user.
As long as the user doesn't delete the file or revoke the link, a shared link will stay valid so your app can recheck it for changes occasionally without further manual user interaction.
If you need a deeper integration than that though, you'd need to use the Dropbox API instead.
That really works! Thank you a lot!
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