Question on retrieving the dbmid for my user

Question

I've just inherited a Python script that uses the Dropbox API to backup data from a third-party source to a folder.

When the employee that used the script went on to another job, his account was deactivated and the app stopped working.

So, I went in, created an app, and am setting up credentials to get the new app up and running again under a new admin user (myself).

The scipt asks for:

a token

a namespace

a userid — starts with dbmid:

From what I've been able to find, the namespace is essentially the folder. It still exists, so I don't actually need to change the value here since I'm not using another folder (at least that's how I think it works).

The token is provided by the "Generated access token" option on the App's Settings page (again, assuming I'm understanding this correctly).

The dbmid is a user-specific token. However, I have no idea where I can retrieve this value.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Greg-DB · Accepted Answer

IDs that start with "dbmid:" are "team member IDs", often named "team_member_id" on the API. There are a number of ways you can retrieve that via the API, such as by calling /2/team/members/list_v2[/continue], to list all team members, or /2/team/members/get_info_v2, to look up a specific team member. Those are team_members_list_v2, team_members_list_continue_v2, and team_members_get_info_v2, respectively, in the official Dropbox API v2 Python SDK. You could also use the API v2 Explorer if you just need to try out a call manually.