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venkateshVenkat
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7 years ago
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Generate file links manually

Hello community, Recently I was working in an project,where they are integrating Dropbox in their app. I had a requirement where I need to get the links of files available in the Dropbox and displ...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    7 years ago
    It sounds like you're trying to construct links to files in the Dropbox web site. Unfortunately, as this isn't part of the Dropbox API, the link format is subject to change without notice, and so is liable to break. That being the case, I don't recommend doing this. I don't have a good solution I'm afraid, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago
It sounds like you're trying to construct links to files in the Dropbox web site. Unfortunately, as this isn't part of the Dropbox API, the link format is subject to change without notice, and so is liable to break. That being the case, I don't recommend doing this. I don't have a good solution I'm afraid, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

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