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Bandwidth attribution for get_temporary_link minted by shared folder collaborator (not file owner)
Hi all I'm building an app on the Dropbox API and need a definitive answer on how daily sharing bandwidth is attributed in one specific shared-folder scenario. I've laid the setup out below with labelled accounts to remove any ambiguity. Setup Account O ("owner"): an end user's Dropbox account that owns a folder of files.…
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MCP OAuth Support
Hey, I'm looking into building a Dropbox MCP integration with my product. Can I register an app / OAuth client, publish that, and use that for all of my customers? Or does every customer need to come into Dropbox to register an app, etc. In the instructions, it looks like you can register an OAuth client but then it talks…
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Latence sur forumactif
Subject: Severe latency when loading Dropbox-hosted files on Forumactif forums Hello Dropbox Support, I am contacting you because several Forumactif forum administrators are currently experiencing severe latency when their forums load files hosted on Dropbox. The issue started around June 2, 2026, at approximately 8:00 PM…
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Incorrect validation of local Oauth 2 redirect URIs in App
The IPv4 loopback address block is nearly seventeen million addresses automatically bound from 127.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255, but the settings page in the App Console allows only the single address 127.0.0.1. It reports valid loopback addresses in that range as "non-local". This makes it impossible for apps to listen on…
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the account id sent by the webhook is the same even when 2 users are making changes to the files
I am currently testing the dropbox api's . As a test I have logged into dropbox with two user accounts, (admin user and a regular operator) . When uploading or deleting a file , from both users, dropbox sends out a webhook with the admin user account id ? Why should this happen. Below is an example of the event data:…
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How to track nested files when folder is deleted?
Hi, We're building an integration that tracks file changes across a Dropbox Business team using the team_log/get_events API. When a user deletes a folder, we receive a single file_delete event with assets[0][".tag"] = "folder", no individual events are generated for the files that were inside that folder. Our problem: We…
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What does the uploaded field in get_upload_info represent
Hi, I noticed that the Dropbox web UI calls an internal endpoint: https://www.dropbox.com/2/files/get_upload_info The response contains two fields: { "display_name": "tester", "uploaded": "2026-05-16T21:47:38Z" } I understand this is not part of the public API, but I'd like to understand what the uploaded field represents…
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Dropbox MCP server tool schema incompatible with Anthropic/Claude strict tool validation
Hi Dropbox team,I’m using the official Dropbox MCP endpoint with Claude Cowork:https://mcp.dropbox.com/mcpThe OAuth connection works correctly. Claude can authenticate and the WhoAmI/account check succeeds.However, Dropbox file/folder operations fail with this error:API Error: 400{"type": "error","error": {"type":…
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Multiple Signers: Both Embedded + Non-Embedded workflows?
Hello. Is it possible to create a multi-signer signature request where: * Signer 1 uses the "embedded" signature flow * Signer 2 uses the "non-embedded" signature flow I've gone through both the "embedded" and "non-embedded" workflows (in API docs) separately, but I'm unclear how I could combine these two flows for a…
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Get comments / discussion for a file via API?
Hi, is there a way to get the comments (as appears on the right side panel of the web UI) for a file via the API? I have searched the methods list for logical names related to that function and also tried `filesGetMetadata`, but no luck so far. Thanks