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Download files from dropbox link I received in email using API?

We recive 100's of emails containing a dropbox share link in the email body. We have written an applicatoin to open the email and extract the Dropbox link. Is there any way to use the Dropbox API to automate the process of downloading the documents from the link to our own dropbox account? Could we download them to a hard drive and then re-upload them to Dropbox?

We really do not want to write a web scraping app to download all these files!

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To download a file from a Dropbox shared link directly to your own Dropbox account, you can use the /2/files/save_url endpoint:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-save_url

Note that this only works if the shared link is for a file, not a whole folder. If you need to download specific files from a shared link for a folder (or the whole folder), you'll need to do so individually using /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file:

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

Or by downloading the whole folder as documented here:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/force-download

You can then upload to your own account as desired, e.g., using /2/files/upload:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload

Those are links to the documentation for the HTTPS endpoints themselves, but we recommend using one of the official SDKs if possible:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation

Those have corresponding native methods for the HTTPS endpoints.