Dropbox: download a shared folder as a zip by appending ?dl=1 to the link
When you need the contents of a shared Dropbox folder link, dont scrape the page or enumerate the files. Just request the shared link with ?dl=1 appended, and Dropbox hands you a zip of the entire folder. That works for folder links of the /sh/ form and avoids one API call per file.
Context: Stack Overflow #20227324 (accepted answer, 27 votes): the asker could download shared file links programmatically but not shared folder links. The accepted answer, confirmed with Dropbox support: append ?dl=1 to the shared link and it returns a zipped version of the whole folder.Maintainer review
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