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Zip multiple folders with Dropbox API

WDMuc

The Dropbox API offers the possibility to zip a single folder (/download_zip). Nice!

But in the official documentation, there's no endpoint or parameter to zip multiple folders.

Is zipping of multiple folders anyhow possible with the API? Any ideas or solutions are welcome!

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WDMuc

It's possible to download a single folder with the Dropbox API using the /zip_download endpoint.

But what about zipping multiple folders with the API? Is there any solution for this?

Thank you!

Greg-DB

No, unless the folders are all in one parent folder and it would be acceptable to download the entirety of that parent folder (in which case you could call /2/files/download_zip for that parent folder), it's not possible to download multiple folders as zips in one call. You would need to call /2/files/download_zip once per desired folder. I'll pass this along as a feature request for a batch version of this endpoint, but I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.

WDMuc

Thanks! Yes, a feature request for this would be great.

It is surprising that you can select and zip multiple folders via the Dropbox website without any problems, but the API does not allow this.

Kind regards!

Nicolas

Здравко

There is:

https://www.dropbox.com/2/browse_zip_downloads/get_zip_download_url

... but it's undocumented and for internal use only. 🤷