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Key Command/Shortcut to "Copy Dropbox Link" from Mac Finder.
I copy download links all day from the Mac Finder. It would be great to assign a key command so that you can highlight a file in your Dropbox via Mac Finder, and press a key command to copy the link ...
Update (2023-01-17)
I've moved the script to a repository and expanded on the instructions.
I wanted this now, so I wrote a Python script to get the URL from the command line and created an Automator QuickAction that calls the script with the selected file(s) in Finder:
Now, ^⌘L copies the Dropbox URL of any number of files selected in the Dropbox folder.
Hi dhermanq, glad the script is working well for you! I've had a look at the dropbox Python API docs for the function in question, and I found an option I hadn't noticed before:
pending_upload: If it’s okay to share a path that does not yet exist, set this to either PendingUploadMode.file or PendingUploadMode.folder to indicate whether to assume it’s a file or folder.
And indeed, when I upload a large file without this setting and request a link before the upload is complete, I get the same error as you. However, when I set this to PendingUploadMode.file, the link is generated anyway. When you use the generated link before the file is fully uploaded, you get this placeholder UI:
It's noteable that this option is available when using sharing_create_shared_link, but NOT with the alternative sharing_create_shared_link_with_settings which is used in the script posted by Здравко. So you'd be running into this with either script. Note also that the function description for sharing_create_shared_link says: "If a shared link already exists for the given path, that link is returned." (The function without settings which I'm using, though, is marked as deprecated. If anyone knows how to enable PendingUploadMode with the new-style call, I'd be happy to accept a PR in the repo. I don't immediately see how to do this after looking through the docs and the forum.)
Anyway, now that I've found this alternative, I've pushed a fix linked to issue #10 in the repo. Let me know if that fixes the behavior for you!
Gene_Parmesanthe update did the trick! Thank you!!
