Greg-DB Dropbox Community Moderator

Good news, this team worked on this, and was able to reduce the link length back to under 500 bytes. You should be able to request the shorter links again now. Please try it and let me know if you're still seeing any issues. Please note, however, that the Dropbox API specification still does not guarantee a maximum length…

@"IOT_Developer" The deplyoment is still planned for today. I'll follow up here once that's done.

We don't offer a PHP SDK, but you can certainly call the Dropbox API from PHP, and use the result as desired. You can either call the HTTPS endpoints directly from an HTTPS client in PHP, or use a third party library.

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to check ahead of time if the folder is too big for the `?dl=1` mechanism. 

To access file content via the Dropbox API, you should use the /2/files/download endpoint.

While the Dropbox API does offer an endpoint for getting thumbnails, that endpoint unfortunately does not support .mp4 files. I'll pass this along as a feature request though.

The team has developed a change to reduce the link length, which is tentatively planned for deployment tomorrow. I'll follow up here with an update when that's done.

No, this is also not available for paid plans, or via any sort of rollback. For your reference, or for anyone else reading this, it sounds like this is the link length issue you're referring to.

The Dropbox JavaScript SDK doesn't offer a way to work around this unfortunately; the download result is only returned once the response is complete. I'll send this along as a feature request, but I can't promise if/when a way to do this would be implemented. That being the case, you may want to look into streaming from…

No, it's not possible to reactivate access tokens that have been disabled by unlinking an app.

Thanks again for the information! I'll reply here as soon as I have any news on this.

No, it's not possible to undo an access token revocation.

Thanks for the feedback! I have escalated this, and I will follow up here once I have an update. 

No, unfortunately there isn't a way to get this information from an access token, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. 

I heard back from the team, and they confirmed that this is the expected behavior. For team-owned content like this, you can't leave a copy with the removed shared folder member. I've asked them to update the documentation to clarify this.

@"ampinwatec" This feature request is open with the team, and I've included your feedback, but I can't promise if/when it will be released.

@"flygecko" Thanks for the additional feedback!

While there isn't a limit specifically on the number of upload or download calls in Basic accounts, the Dropbox API does have a general rate limiting system that limits how many API calls overall can be made in a given period of time. We don't have any specific numbers documented for that. It is only designed to prevent…

No, it is not for team members only. You can use that to share specific files with edit access to team members and non-team members alike.

@"ampinwatec" No, I don't have an update on this request I'm afraid.

@"IOT_Developer" I have escalated this to engineering. I'll follow up here once I have an update.

@"BAB1" The length of the returned link depends on a few things, including the file path, based on how it's implemented on the Dropbox servers. It's possible the length did increase due to some backend change recently. I'm checking with engineering to see what may have changed here, and to see if we can potentially revert…

@"Manish1974" No, unfortunately we don't offer an SDK or examples for PHP in particular. There are some third party libraries listed here that may be helpful: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/communitysdks Otherwise, you would need to use the HTTPS endpoints directly, and write code to call those…

@"bhoward" No, I'm afraid I don't have an update on this request.

@"BAB1" No, unfortunately we can't administratively change the length of that link. The length of these links can depend on the original file path though, so one solution may be to make that file path as short as possible, in order to get the resulting link short enough to fit in your buffer.

No, unfortunately our /oauth2/authorize implementation only allows a 'state' value of up to 500 bytes, and there isn't a way to configure a larger limit. I'll send this along as a feature request, but I can't make any promises as to if/when that would be increased.

Thanks! This generally shouldn't be very common, but it is possible and expected sometimes. The listFolder[Continue] interface doesn't guarantee a non-zero number of results (due to various aspects of how the backend is implemented), so it is possible to get empty pages like this. You should have your app handle these…

Thanks for the report. To clarify, when you call listFolderContinue, does that response also have hasMore = true?

Yes, this functionality is now available. You can find the documentation for them in the Java SDK here, starting under "propertiesAdd": https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-java/api-docs/v3.0.x/ The other official SDKs also have methods for these. Or, if you're not using an SDK, you can find the corresponding HTTP…

The Dropbox API doesn't offer server-side filtering for file types like that. You'll need to filter client-side, based on the file extension in the path. We'll consider it a feature request though. (Alternatively, you may be able to use the search method depending on your use case.)