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How to get dropbox files thumbnails in filelist?

I am integrating Dropbox into a Laravel/PHP project to allow subscribers to link their Dropbox account and access files from Dropbox storage.

I am able to fetch directories and files list from Dropbox and also there are API to download files or generate a thumbnail for images. But the issue is that generating a thumbnail for each image is a very slow process. So, I am looking for a solution to get thumbnail URL in file list as other services like google drive provide us.

Solution

  • I achieved this by using dropbox thumbnail batch request.

    Here is the doc page: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_thumbnail_batch

    Dropbox allow fetching 25 thumbnails in one request.