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What is the easiest way to download 101 previous revisions of a file?

I have a file that gets edited multiple times a day. There was content in this file that was only visible for a couple days about a month ago. What is the best way to get that information?

I tried using the web interface, but it was clear that it would take hours of loading previous versions to get back that far. I did some searching on the forum and saw this post How-to-batch-download-the-entire-file-version-history . I said to myself, that will be a fun project, I might even learn something. With much enthusiasm, I took their advice and wrote my own app.

It is Monday morning, April 12, 2021. My app is ready. My file is in the crosshairs. Soon I will be able to find a keyword in all open documents using Notepad++. It is so close.

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Reload App . . .

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Devastated, I find that I can only load 100 previous versions using list_revisions. This gets me back 10 days...

Do I really have to write an autohotkey program to scrape the website to get this information? Or did they implement this request from 2017 and I just don't see it?

Thank you

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Greg-DB

Unfortunately this hasn't been implemented on the API. It still only supports retrieving 100 revisions. That's still open as a feature request though. Apologies I don't have better news for you!

iNeil

Hello @Hillaero,

There has been a recent enhancement to the Dropbox API’s /2/files/list_revisions endpoint that may be helpful for your implementation. The endpoint now supports two new capabilities:

before_rev (optional request parameter): This allows you to request revisions that occurred before a specific revision ID. It can be set using the rev of the last entry from a previous response. Currently it is only supported when using path mode in your request.
has_more (response field): This boolean indicates whether additional revisions are available. If true, you can continue retrieving older revisions by making another call with the before_rev request parameter. If false, it means all available revisions have been returned, and there are no more entries to fetch.

These updates have improved the pagination functionality for file revision history. However, this functionality is not yet available in the Dropbox SDKs. To use the new capabilities, you’ll need to make direct HTTP requests to the /2/files/list_revisions endpoint.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Best regards,
API Support Team