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How can I get public URLs for all files within a folder?

Hi,

I use Dropbox to manage a photo gallery. Co-workers can change photos within the folder and I can show them on our website.

Right now, I proxy the request to get the file but that's a lot of calls and files are heavy.

Instead, I would like to embed to use the Dropbox URL directly to show photos, like:

Is there a way to get public URLs for all files within a folder?

Thanks

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Greg-DB

If you want to get the shared links like the one in your sample, you can use /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings to create one, if one doesn't already exist:

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

If you're using an official SDK, there will be a corresponding method for that.

Note that you'll need to call for each file in the folder that you want.

A link already exists, you can use /2/sharing/list_shared_links to retrieve it:

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

Also, note that by default, these shared links point to preview pages, not the files themselves, but you can modify them for direct access as shown here:

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

Vincent P.9

Hi,

Thank you for your answer. I was trying it and it's extremely slow to create new links with create_shared_link_with_settings, is there a way to batch that?

Thanks!

Greg-DB

No, unfortunately there isn't a way to create shared links in bulk, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

hypebaestyle

And what about now? Did you already do it? We need to upload many photos from dropbox to our website, and if we will do it one by one - it will be very, very long process! Is there any solution to automate share links creation from folder with image files?

Greg-DB

@hypebaestyle No, unfortunately the Dropbox API still doesn't offer a batch shared link creation endpoint.