Getting the team member ID for Dropbox Business API

Question

Users authenticated via a Dropbox Business app must provide a member_id (by the Dropbox-Select-User header, for example) when making a User Endpoint request.

It's not clear how to fetch that member_id token. The best I can come up with is to go through `/members/list` until I can find an entry that matches the current user.

Is there a way of quickly finding the member_id of the authenticated user to send through for the Dropbox-Select-User header?

Greg-DB · Accepted Answer

Which "authenticated user" do you mean, exactly? Note that Dropbox Business API apps are linked to the entire team, not a specific member, so for any given Dropbox Business API app linked to a team, there isn't exactly a specific member implied.

If you mean the particular member that happened to authorize the app to connect to the team, you can look them up using /2/team/token/get_authenticated_admin. Note that this will vary by access token though, and isn't necessarilly the current end-user of your app. It also won't necessarilly be available for every access token.

Alternatively, if you're looking for a particular member based on a known email address or external ID, you can look them up using /2/team/members/get_info.