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Riccardo Chojwa's avatar
Riccardo Chojwa
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Download file with VBA

Hi I'm a DB beginner and have to use VBA from Excel I'm using, in between others: Set xmlhttp = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1") myURL = "https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/down...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    4 years ago

    The /2/files/download endpoint is a "content-download" style endpoint, meaning that when the call is successful, the requested file data is returned in the response body. 

     

    It sounds like that is what you're seeing. That is, the text you're reading out is the raw file data. What you do with that data is up to you.

     

    For instance, in this case, it sounds like you want to save that file data to the local file system. Dropbox can't offer support for interacting with the local filesystem in VBA, as that's not made by Dropbox, but it looks like you may want to use FileSystemObject.

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