How to use Dropbox API to display complete photo albums?

Question

I am working on a web-based photo selections/proofing application integrated with dropbox. I am stuck at how to efficiently fetch and display a complete folder in my application of like 3000+ photos. What are the API methods and techniques to achieve this efficiently?

I have tried generating share links individually but it takes ages to load all data on a normal internet connection.Like more than an hour.

Isn't there any method in API to fetch all file links in a single request? With some parameters to fetch them in lower resolution in case of heavy images. I am sure it would reduce the album loading time to less than 5 minutes in my application.

Answer 1

No, the Dropbox API unfortunately doesn't currently offer batch calls for getting links or thumbnails. We'll consider this a feature request.