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Ideas on creating shared links and finding projects by keyword?
Hi everyone, I hope I can get some ideas here as I can't figure this out. Background We upload all our projects to Dropbox. Since we use software for project creation, they generally have...
iNeil
Dropbox Engineer
Dropbox EngineerHello DragonLinks1,
Based on the information provided, it appears you are attempting to search for files on a Dropbox account and then create shared links for those files. From the code snippet you have provided, you are listing the contents of the Dropbox account and then searching for specific files from that list followed by creating a shared link.
Instead of using the files_list_folder method followed by searching through the retrieved list, an alternative approach would be directly searching for the files using the Dropbox API endpoints by using the files_search_v2 and files_search_continue_v2 methods. After obtaining the listed search results, you can create shared link based on your findings with the path_lower value.
Thanks, mate! I modified the logic in the script with files_search_v2, and so far, it seems to be working fine. It's not as fast as the original script, which is expected since this one uses the API for the search, but I'm happy with the processing speed I've got. By the way, I own a beer, this was troubling me for a while 🙂
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