Get list of files for dropbox shared link

Question

What I'm trying to do seems rather simple, but I can't find a way to do it.

Imagine somebody sends you a link for a dropbox folder. You can go to that URL and see all the files in the folder.

I'm trying to write a script in either python, php, or javascript to get all the download links in that folder from that URL.

How would I do that? Without logging in/authenticating into the account of the user who sent the link in the first place.

Answer 1

Assuming that the contents of the folder are indeed public as you've indicated in the comments, you might want to look into the use of PHP's file_get_contents() function.

From the docs:

file_get_contents — Reads entire file into a string

Answer 2

I doubt that it's possbile to do without auth. As mentioned in Dropbox API doc — "Dropbox uses OAuth to authenticate all API requests."