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chainsbomb
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Solution for Dropbox API where I have a non-standard setup.

My app is single-page server-side javascript/HTML, but I don't use Node. This seems to mean that I can't just import {Dropbox} from 'dropbox'   I am able to access use the chooser and saver by usin...
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chainsbomb
Explorer | Level 4

From what I gather, the Dropbox API v2 JavaScript SDK requires node.js to be installed, which I do not have.

 

Anything via "import" or "require" or "curl" are out of bounds, so I guess GET and POST are the solution.

 

Thanks though.

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djschoch
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago

chainsbomb,

Sounds like I'm in a similar situation as you - I need to just use GET and POST to retrieve and save files on Dropbox.  Would you be willing to share a few code snippets and/or advice to get me started?  Thanks so much.

-Dan-

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