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Fetch folder URL with Dropbox folder ID??

1st, I am not a developer. I can use webhooks with Zapier and understand things...that's about it.

I use a web app in my company that creates a Dropbox folder automatically in my account for each "Order" placed. I can get a webhook payload from the app that contains "Dropbox Folder Identifier" which the value looks something like: id:j30bOvS0fLgAAAAEw_w (made-up example) etc.

What I need to do is have the friendly URL for the folder returned in a Slack channel Message upon creation, so that the appropriate person can get to it quickly. OR a way to use/append a URL to access the folder with the ID (cant seem to figure this out)

Can anyone help with this?

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Greg-DB

Dropbox unfortunately does not support a way to directly get a link to a folder from an ID like this exactly, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

There are some things you may work, though they may require some programming.

If the folder happens to be a shared folder, one could call /2/files/get_metadata with the 'path' set to the ID of the folder to get the 'sharing_info.shared_folder_id' which is the shared folder ID, and then call /2/sharing/get_folder_metadata with that 'shared_folder_id' to get the 'preview_url'.

Alternatively, one could call /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings with the 'path' set to the ID of the folder, and 'settings.audience' to to 'no_one' to get a link that would refer to the folder on the web site for anyone who has access to it, though not directly enable any additional access to it.