not yet?
Has anyone other than Tom found a solution or workaround for this? Please share.
Sadly, no.
Our scenario
We have a workflow where a client can quote, approve, purchase. If the purchase goes through and the user has input true to 'have dropbox account ? ' - we offer DropBox space by using these endpoints:
/files/create_folder/sharing/share_folder/sharing/add_folder_member
It would be so good to remove check for whether user has DB account ( and stop file uploads to our own server ).
Like Johan S. said, it would be 'awesome' ...
Greg - I do not have a solution but interested in learning more about your workflow. What is a good email to reach you at?
King E: there is no pm here and I would rather not expose an email. If you are happy to add an email to your post I will reach out.
I too would love this feature to integrate with our system. We frequently need to request artwork from our clients for a specific job number. Generating a URL from a Job number would be perfect.
Greg - drop me a line at info@kingproductionsco.com
+1 this feature would be great... is it in the API yet?
Hi Fred, unfortunately no, this isn't in the API.
Just the ability to send a file vie API / REST request to an already created file request link would already be great, instead of needing to use the drag'n'drop webpage.
Gregory are there any plans to at least allow that functionality?
For our usecase we want to allow the users to send read-only files to each other, but we can't require everybody to buy a business account for that just for using a free app...
Hi Adica, unfortunately no, I'm not aware of any plans to introduce a programmatic interface for submitting files to a file request.
This is really too bad. I can't find any service anywhere that allows for anonymous file sending. In our case, we need to (programmatically) allow our customer service agents to create a file request link that our client code (on an iPad) can then use to programmatically send several hundred megabytes in hundreds of files to us (for diagnostic purposes). It needs to be done in a way that's inaccessible to others (but accessible to us), or really even the user that sent the files in the first place.
One-time links that have an expiry would mostly address the accessibility issue, as they'd be hard to discover, and the uploaded files would be deleted after a few days or weeks.
We also have a simliar need for regularly uploading log files, but these are much smaller.
It seems no one offers this (not S3, not DropBox, despite the most obvious drop box functionality this is, not Box).
I want to join the call to add this functionality to Dropbox API!
I have the same request to be able to programmatically upload files to a File Request. My use case: I've written a GUI that receives radio beacons from a satellite in orbit and decodes the telemetry into human readable things (onboard voltages, currents, temperatures, etc), displays it, and is supposed to automatically forward the binary to the satellite team (me). HAM radio operators around the world use this GUI and I want the data they receive so I can fold it into our automatic processing. Right now, they have to manually drop their binary files into the File Request, which is an annoyance and a barrier, so I don't get all the data.
So, still can't do what many on this thread want.
Adding +1. Very much need the ability to anonymously submit files to the File Request programatically by whatever means. Be it a REST thing or a .Net API thing.
I've begun trying to reverse engineer the request response stream from the upload page so we could emulate it, but we shouldn't have to do that.
This would be incredibly useful for collecting support data from client locations with a single string. (File Request URL) being the only setting and no credentials required.
Thanks for the feedback @Rick D.3!
No worries.
Of course if you need a beta tester.... I'm just sayin'. 8^)
Adding another +1 to this.
I see it is available in Tray.io but not in Zapier. This makes dropbox a show stopper for me, and I will be forced to use another service for requesting file uploads from clients. Please add this! I see these requests date back +5 years, with MANY users requesting.
What is going on behind the scenes that this cannot be added, Dropbox team?
@Mark Abrams Thanks for the feedback! The team decided not to implement the ability to programmatically upload to file requests, but I'll pass this along and follow up here if that changes.
