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bawejakunal
bawejakunal

Reputation: 1708

Download contents of file shared using dropbox API

I am working on a chrome extension wherein the users can store the files in their dropbox account. As mentioned in the dropbox api share file link, I used that endpoint to generate a file sharing link which generates a compressed/shortened sharing url like https://db.tt/c0mFuu1Y. Now my query is that how can I use the dropbox api to get the contents of the file using this shared link, somewhat like what happens here for the files owned by the user.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 488

Answers (1)

user94559
user94559

Reputation: 60143

See https://www.dropbox.com/help/201.

If you have a shortened link, like the example you gave, you'll want to fetch that first and get the Location header on the 302 response. That will give you the full (non-shortened) share link. From there, you can apply the technique described in the link above... add the ?raw=1 query parameter and just download the contents.

Upvotes: 0

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