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Jayme McColgan
Jayme McColgan

Reputation: 25

Understanding JSON and Dropbox API pulls

so I'm jumping in head first here and trying to learn something new... I have an Angular Function that will pull in all the contents of a folder using the Dropbox API and list it into a JSON file (and later display it on a webpage.)

what I want to do next is to get a share link for all those files using the create_shared_link_with_settings API and put them into a JSON file for all the files in the folder.

here's what I have for the first part. If you could help me out or point me in the right direction on the proper way to tackle this. 

        var app = angular.module("content-review", []);

    app.controller("Content-folders-4K", function ($scope, $http) {
        $http({
                url: 'https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder',
                method: 'POST',
                processData: false,
                contentType: 'application/json',
                data: ({
                    "path": "/MIG/Projects/Hippo content Watermark/HD/011_Blue"
                }),
                headers: {
                    "Authorization": "Bearer APIKEYTHATIMNOTSHARING",
                },
            })

            .then(function (response) {
                $scope.UHD = response.data.entries;
                $scope.json = angular.toJson(response.data, true);
                console.log($scope.json)

            });

    });

Upvotes: 0

Views: 734

Answers (1)

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 16940

To create a shared link for a file or folder in Dropbox, the /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings endpoint you mentioned is the correct endpoint to use. You can find the documentation here. There's also an example of calling it in curl that you can translate for use with your own HTTPS client.

You specify which item you want the link for using the path parameter similar to how you did for the /2/files/list_folder call you showed. You can get the path value from the path_lower value for each "entry" in the /2/files/list_folder responses.

Note that if a shared link already exists for the item, you'll get a shared_link_already_exists error. The error will include the existing shared link only if the settings for the existing link match the settings you requested. Otherwise, you'll need to call /2/sharing/list_shared_links to get the existing link.

Either way, you can parse the result of the successful call to get the SharedLinkMetadata.url value for use in your app.

Upvotes: 1

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