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Getting download URLs from shared folders

My client has a partnership with a photographer who dumps images in a dropbox folder that is shared. It can be accessed through /sh/... link. For dropbox to work in our solution I need to be able to gather links to and download the images. I found the metadata/link API endpoint but that doesn't give me any possibilities to traverse folders or get urls to actual files? What use is the metadata/link endpoint if it's not possible to download a file using it?

I'm using a sampel app OAuth token to authenticate my requests.

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Greg-DB

[Edit to offer a simpler solution]

The /metadata/link endpoint allows the app to get additional metadata (path, size, etc.) as well as individual links to files within the folder the link points to. To do so, call /metadata/link with the shared link as the link parameter, as well as the desired sub-path as the path parameter. Then modify and use the returned link to download the contents directly:

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

(You can use list=true first to get the listing of the folder first.)

James Z.3

Hi Gregory, is the metadata/link endpoint available in the Swift API? I can't seem to find it in the documentation or by looking through the source.

Greg-DB

The Swift SDK uses API v2, which doesn't currently have an equivalent of /metadata/link. I believe it is planned, but I don't have a timeline to offer right now.

Greg-DB

Dropbox API v2 now offers this via the endpoint /sharing/get_shared_link_metadata:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_shared_link_metadata

James Z.3

Thanks Greg!

Alexander P.5

Gregory, v1 does not have urls to download files. Tried with "public link" url, gives me entries like this:

rualpe-ws:seene-dropbox-experiments paf$ curl -s -d "client_id=$client_id&client_secret=$client_secret&link=https://www.dropbox.com/sh/02pygaow396w775/AAC8ycNc44-87K0To_xeEsLca?dl=0&list=true&path=/Sample Album" -XPOST https://api.dropbox.com/1/metadata/link |jq .

...

{

"rev": "80b8dedbf",

"thumb_exists": true,

"path": "/Sample Album/Pensive Parakeet.jpg",

"is_dir": false,

"client_mtime": "Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:32:58 +0000",

"icon": "page_white_picture",

"bytes": 480098,

"modified": "Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:44:16 +0000",

"size": "468.8 KB",

"root": "link",

"mime_type": "image/jpeg"

}

I'm after links to thumbnails and links to file previews.

Greg-DB

Alexander, it sounds like you already sorted some of this out, so I'll follow up on the latest thread you replied on, so as not to spam others on these threads.