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tenzin's avatar
tenzin
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

how to allow listening access of Dropbox audio files within my apps interface

I want to allow users of my app to them be able to connect their dropbox account and select the folder they want to allow access to.    Their folder names and their file names will be displayed in ...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    3 years ago

    Hi tenzin,

    Embeder cannot handle all data types. Currently audio and video files are not supported as noted in the link you refer to. You should organize audio playing in your site by yourself. Selecting particular file or folder can be achieved using Chooser too.

    Good luck.

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Greg-DB
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tenzin As Здравко noted, you may want to use Dropbox shared links. The Dropbox Embedder may be useful in that case.

 

Otherwise, Dropbox does offer an API you can use for listing, uploading, and downloading files, among other operations. You can find everything you need to get started with the Dropbox API, including documentation, tutorials, and SDKs here.

 

The following guides may be helpful:

tenzin's avatar
tenzin
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Thanks for your response!

 

I followed the steps in this how to.

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/embedder

 

I added the embed code and nothing is showing up. I'm having trouble understanding how the users of my app will select the folders from their dropbox that they want to embed into my app. 

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