Webhooks

Question

I would like to make a feature request, to please add functionality of subscribing to particular or specific events. For example in my test OAuth2 client application I envision using events when user add or delete a file or folder in their Dropbox account and not the ones coming for every file change, but in its current form I am getting generic events for everything happening.

Furthermore, there is no field to see what sort of event happened, only way I could see is I need to make a call to /list_folder endpoint and traverse the whole thing to see what has actually happened.

Greg-DB · Accepted Answer

Thanks! I'll pass this along as a feature request, though I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.

And yes, Dropbox webhooks only tell you when something has changed, but not what has changed. You'll need to use the /2/files/list_folder[/continue] functionality to get the actual entries. You don't need to start anew from /2/files/list_folder every time though. You can use /2/files/list_folder/continue with the last cursor you received to retrieve only the changes since that cursor was issued. Refer to the linked documentation for more information on using that functionality.