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How to search file content for all users on a business account?

I've used the Dropbox Admin toolkit to search all users files and folders names and content for keywords. However, I can't export or save that information using the toolkit. Is there a way to use the APIs to search all users' file names and content? I know I can use file/search to search my own but how would I search all users?

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Greg-DB

There isn't an efficient way to do this unfortunately, but you can accomplish this by using /2/file/search for each user.

The basic outline would look like this:

Register an app for the "team member file access" permission and use the "Generate" button to get an access token for your team, if you don't already have one.
Call /2/team/members/list[/continue] or /2/team/members/get_info to get each team member's information, specifically their member ID, if you don't already have it.
For each member, call /2/files/search with Dropbox-API-Select-User containing the member ID, as necessary.

(Alternatively, if the DropboxBusinessAdminTool already does most of what you want, you may just want to fork and modify that directly instead.)