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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 ...
Steve M.
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffA bit of extra detail:
The documentation for /thumbnails is here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/docs#thumbnails. The default format returned is JPEG, but you can also ask for a PNG.
The documentation for /previews is here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/docs#previews. That endpoint always returns HTML or PDF (depending on the type of the original file). So although the browser won't be able to display a Word doc directly, it should be able to display the preview of a Word doc, because that preview will be either HTML or PDF.
Your attempt to use a data URI will likely work if you use an img tag (not sure if an iframe will work) and actually convert the data to base64. If you can't get that working, please share your code so people can help.
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