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Derag
7 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Image link on without sharing
I am making a webapp that lets user store, edit and view text files on their Dropbox account (from app folder). I would want to embedded images into that text, with images that are also saved on use...
- 7 months ago
The Dropbox API /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings endpoint (or corresponding native method in an SDK) does offer an 'audience' setting of 'no_one', which does not grant additional access, so that only the account(s) that already otherwise have access to the file (such as the owner) would be able to access it.
Also, Dropbox does offer the ability to modify shared links for different behaviors, such as direct file data access, e.g., by using the raw=1 parameter, as documented here. Note that shared links are subject to bandwidth limits.
I just tried this out myself though and unfortunately it looks like this particular combination of settings doesn't work. I'll raise this with the team to see if this is something we can support.
Greg-DB
7 months agoDropbox Staff
The Dropbox API /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings endpoint (or corresponding native method in an SDK) does offer an 'audience' setting of 'no_one', which does not grant additional access, so that only the account(s) that already otherwise have access to the file (such as the owner) would be able to access it.
Also, Dropbox does offer the ability to modify shared links for different behaviors, such as direct file data access, e.g., by using the raw=1 parameter, as documented here. Note that shared links are subject to bandwidth limits.
I just tried this out myself though and unfortunately it looks like this particular combination of settings doesn't work. I'll raise this with the team to see if this is something we can support.
- Derag7 months agoExplorer | Level 3
I ended up using access Public and raw=1
Thanks for raising this further!- Derag7 months agoExplorer | Level 3
For some reason that stopped working. Now image isn't loaded. It tries to download it even with raw=1
Same happens for files that worked before
- Здравко7 months agoLegendary | Level 20
Hi Derag,
That's because some strange change of all new links behavior gets up. Doesn't matter of link parameters (is there something link "dl=1" or "raw=1"), all links provide HTML content that may redirect further to the file. This contradicts to the Dropbox links documentation. 🤷
Let's hope this is some mistake that'll be fixed. .. and let's hope this is NOT some new "feature" that first rolled out and documentation... doesn't matter. Let's hope...
Good luck... to all of us.
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