Retrieve contents of a public Dropbox folder?

Question

Is there a way to retrieve a list of the contents of a public Dropbox folder (preferably in PHP)? This is what a URL to a public file in Dropbox looks like:

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Answer 1

You can use the Dropbox API, specifically the search path. This just returns JSON, which is easy enough to parse.

If you want to just have an index file on your own public Dropbox you can take this approach: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=54966.

This generates an index in Python: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17432