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SDK C# Read zip without downloading

David115

Hi, I'm try to read the content of a zip in dropbox without downloading using c#. But I'can't do it. Is It possible?,

I read a xml file and images without downloading, but with a zip I don't know how to read the content.

Any one can share the code in c# or explain me in ditails how to do it?

Thanks!!

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Greg-DB

No, unfortunately the Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to list/download specific files from inside a zip archive stored on Dropbox, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

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Greg-DB

Regardless of the file type, to access file data via the Dropbox API v2 .NET SDK, you can use the DownloadAsync method. That will give you a IDownloadResponse you can use to access the file data via several methods. Exactly what you do with the data is up to you. You can save it to the local filesystem, for instance, but you are not required to. You could use GetContentAsStreamAsync to get a stream of the data and pass that directly to whatever you need to do with it instead, for example.

Here's some sample code that uses the stream to update an image in place, for example, instead of saving it locally.

In your case, it sounds like you'd need to pass it to some code that can handle zip data in place. That's a bit outside the scope of Dropbox API support though, so I can't offer much guidance on that exactly, but it looks like System.IO.Compression may support unzipping zip data from a stream.

David115

Thanks you so much!!

Finally I can access to the content of the zip in Dropbox, but the problem that I've got now it's that with the DownloadAsync method I download the zip and I don't want to download it, I only want to access to some files inside the zip stored in Dropbox. Is it possible to access to this files without the DownloadAsync method, only with the route of the zip stored in my Dropbox?.

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