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## dropbox-to-shopify.md

      
        
          
            
              
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                Finding the true Dropbox location of images, so that they can be uploaded directly to Shopify.
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    One of the projects I'm working on right now requires being able to upload product images to Shopify. These images
are sourced via Dropbox links, which look something like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/[some id]/[filename].jpg?dl=0.
Shopify has a feature which allows for API image uploads via URL or via a Base64 encoded attachment. However, when you try and
link a Dropbox URL, you will likely encounter an error since Dropbox file extensions are "faux", and aren't the actual location
of the image you want.
Searching for a solution to this yeilds little help. The common solution from Shopify indicates that you'd have to download
the images via your URL (to do this you must pass ?dl=1), and either encode it to base64 or host it somewhere on your own,
then attach the image to your API request.