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Dropbox download to an absolute URL

Is there a way to get an absolute URL of an image after it's been downloaded using the filesDownload function in the JavaScript, I'm also using Node.js and Discord.js, I'm currently trying to download an image from my Dropbox directory and then send it to a Discord channel which only allows for absolute URLs to send images as attachments.

I realise I can use the response.fileBinary to get the data of the image, is there a way to then save this to the server it's running on using the command "node ." and then locate that image on the server which I can then send.

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Greg-DB

The filesDownload method in the Dropbox API v2 JavaScript SDK is just a way to retrieve the file data from the Dropbox servers, and doesn't itself interact with your local filesystem. You can access the file data via the fileBinary property like you mentioned, and from there you can do whatever you need with the data, such as saving it to the local filesystem, etc.

For instance, here's an example that shows how you could save the downloaded file data from a download-style request (filesDownload works the same way) to the local file system using fs.