Download data for all users on team

time4116

What is the best way to download the contents of all user folders? I've created a DropBox API application but this seems to only allow access to my content, I've also created a DropBox Buisness API (Team member file access) app to see if we can leverage that to download all of our users content. However, I can't seem to find a direct way to do it via the HTTP documentation. We are mainly looking for content that is not a part of a team or shared so we can download to a local box for analyzation. Ideally, any soultion that does not require user intervention. Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

Greg-DB

To download all non-team and non-shared file content from all members of a team without individual user action, you'll need a Dropbox Business API app with the "team member file access" permission. This will let you use the "Member file access" feature to access each member's account.

 

The basic outline of the code would go like this:

• Call /2/team/members/list[/continue] to get all of the members.
• For each desired member, use the "Member file access" feature to call /2/files/list_folder[/continue] with path="" and recursive=true to get the full file/folder listing for the member. (Note that this will include anything mounted inside the member's Dropbox, e.g., shared folders or mounted team folders, so you'd have to filter those out, and you may get duplicates across members, e.g., from shared folders.)
• For every desired file for each member, use the "Member file access" feature to call /2/files/download to download the file.

Alternatively, you can use /2/team/namespaces/list[/continue] instead of listing each member and then listing everything for each member.