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I am using dropbox for one of my application where a user can connect their dropbox folders.

Usage is such that a user can create links among the files of a folder and many more. But the problem is the moment when I stored the file information in my application, the file media information is stored with a key expires. So obviously I wont be able to use the link next time once the expiry time is met.

One way is to generate the media information every time the user is selecting a thumbnail from my application, as I already have metadata of the file.

But is there any other way (i.e by using python client or API) that I can make a folder public when a user selects it to connect with my application.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your precious time.

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I think the right thing to do is to generate a media link each time you need it.

Is there a reason you don't like that solution?

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  • Hi smarx, The only reason I was sceptical in doing that was it would be a bit slow. But no other options seems to be available, so I am already doing same stuff. Any way thanks a lot for devoting your time. :)
    – Somesh
    Commented Jun 10, 2013 at 6:57
  • I'm curious whether it is actually slow. What's your experience so far?
    – user94559
    Commented Jun 10, 2013 at 15:46
  • it is slow. for 30kb of images, each of them being almost 3kb it takes 30 seconds. but once cached the latency reduces
    – Somesh
    Commented Jun 11, 2013 at 11:09
  • Generating the media link takes 30 seconds? Or generating 10 media links takes 30 seconds (30KB/3KB)? I wouldn't think that the size of the file would have any effect on how long it takes to create a media link.
    – user94559
    Commented Jun 11, 2013 at 22:27
  • generating 10 media links it takes 30 secs.
    – Somesh
    Commented Jun 12, 2013 at 13:57

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