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How to read Dropbox Public folder Images in HTML

I want to read all images from a dropbox public folder in a loop using jquery loop and display them.

I have tried displaying single images Simple Image like this

"https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/9d7ri25ku7xlj9u/WALL-E%20%281%29.jpg?dl=0"

but if I have unknown number of images in dropbox public folder how can I access them all from dropbox??

Any starting point??

Thanks

Solution

  • Dropbox Public folders don't currently offer any way to list all of the files contained in them, so there isn't a real way to do this. (Also, your sample link isn't a Public folder link anyway, but rather a "shared link". Public folder links used '/u/' instead of '/s/'.)

    Anyway, one workaround here is to maintain your own index of all of the desired links as a single, pre-determined link. That is, you can host and update a text file at a specific link which would contain all of the other links. When necessary, you would download that index file to get the current list of links.