Do any of the major online photo storage/sharing platforms offer a reasonable way to export a set of image URLs and titles as something like a CSV or fetch them as JSON from a REST API?
I am trying to get any sort of clean list of title, url value pairs for all the images in a particular folder or gallery.
Google Drive/Photos would be my prefered platform, but I would switch to DropBox or other service if I could easily get such an export list.
If you're going to use Google Drive, you'll probably end up using these properties from File Resource:
webViewLink - a link for opening the file in a relevant Google editor
or
webContentLink - a link for downloading the content of the file in a
browser.
You can fetch this properties using files.list or files.get.
For Dropbox, you would use the /2/files/list_folder[/continue] endpoints to list the desired files:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder-continue
Then, you can use /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings to create shared links for the desired files:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-create_shared_link_with_settings
Or, to retrieve existing shared links, use /2/sharing/list_shared_links:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_shared_links
Those are links to the documentation for the HTTPS endpoints themselves, but we recommend using one of the official SDKs if possible:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation
Those have corresponding native methods for the HTTPS endpoints.
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Is there a way to use the Dropbox API to list docs in a Paper folder?
There isn't a way to list all Paper documents in a specific folder directly, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
The closest thing is to use /2/paper/docs/list[/continue], which let you list all of the Paper documents the user has either accessed (filter_by=docs_accessed) or created (filter_by=docs_created).
I need to upload bulk pictures and get each of their links to share it. The link is not standard in dropbox.
Lets say I have two pictures, their names: 1.jpg and 2.jpg
I want to get standard links like:
http://www.dropbox.com/1.jpg,
http://www.dropbox.com/2.jpg
is there any way to do it?
Thanks
You can use the Dropbox API to get or create shared links for files. Specifically, you can use /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings to create a shared link for a file or folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-create_shared_link_with_settings
Or you can use /2/sharing/list_shared_links to get existing shared links:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_shared_links
There are also corresponding methods in the SDKs if you're using one:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation
Why I can't update image this way?
Bigcommerce::createProductImage($product_id, array('image_file'=>'/home/user/bigcommerce/api/picture.jpg'));
The follow code works:
Bigcommerce::createProductImage($product_id, array('image_file'=>'https://cdn6.bigcommerce.com/s-0cvdh/products/32/images/299/apitec71q__46081.1484240387.1280.1280__30161.1484331218.1280.1280.jpg'));
According to the documentation, it is not possible to upload an image locally. The docs say:
When specifying a product image, the image_file should be specified as either:
a path to an image already uploaded via FTP to the import directory (with the path
relative to the import directory); or a URL to an image accessible on the internet.
It doesn't work because the BigCommerce servers have no idea where "/home/user/bigcommerce/api/picture.jpg" lives. That's a file that exists on your local machine, and you're passing a string to BigCommerce telling it where to get the file. It works in the second case because BigCommerce can access that URI.
In more general terms, you need to upload the image to a location that BigCommerce can access it, and then pass a URI that BigCommerce can use to retrieve the image. It may seem a little cumbersome, but it relieves BigCommerce from having to stream large amounts of data through their API.
Current Dropbox API searchFileNames() allows the searching of a query / substring, so if I wanted to look for filenames in a folder that were of a specific extension such as ".jpg", that works, but if I combine to look for ".jpg .png" I get nothing returned... as the documentation states 'A file matches only if it contains all the substrings.'
Is there another API that will allow a union of the searched vs the exclusion?
Thanks
No, the Dropbox API doesn't enable you to search for multiple file extensions at once like this, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.
As a workaround, you can split this into multiple API calls.
I'm using Dropbox V2 APIs (C#) to get files/folders from Dropbox account. I am able to fetch particular file/folder by using its specific path. I wanted to know whether there is any way I can fetch file/folder by using ID?
This depends on exactly which operation(s) you're referring to. For example, downloading files and getting metadata for files or folders support specifying file IDs:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-download
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_metadata
You would specify the path as a string like "id:a4ayc_80_OEAAAAAAAAAYa".
Searching and listing folders currently do not support this though:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-search
The same applies to the corresponding methods in the SDKs.
Edit: list_folder and search now do support file IDs.