Restrict Accessing / Selecting Specific File Types

Question

I'm about to integrate the API into a new project and I'd love to be able to restrict the user from selecting file types that we don't support.  I've been looking through the docs but am not seeing it (or just missing it I hope).

We currently support .docx, .pdf, .rtf, .txt and it would be awesome if we can restrict selecting any files that do not have one of those types.

Is this supported in the API?  If not, I supposed we'd need to do some validation and feedback on client-side on our end.

Thanks!

Kane

Greg-DB · Accepted Answer

You didn't mention what platform you're using, but if you can use just the Dropbox web Chooser, you can filter files by type using the 'extensions' option.

Otherwise, if you are using the Dropbox API itself, I'm afraid this isn't offered. The Dropbox API doesn't have a way to restrict the app's access to specific types, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. That being the case, you'd have to implement the filtering client-side.