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can't find "File Requests API"
not yet?
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...
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
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!
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