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Federico P.3's avatar
Federico P.3
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10 years ago

preview my files in iframe using http core api

Hi, i am developing an application that let user browse his file inside my web application. I'd like to let user preview his file inside an iframe of such webapp as such as it is done in dropbox ...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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10 years ago

The thumbnails and previews endpoints return the raw data for the thumbnail or preview of the requested file, respectively. You'd need to save that data and serve it back however you want. E.g., serve it at a URL to use as the src for your iframe.

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