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Search files in folder based on file tags python sdk

Thang2000

I'm trying to search files in a folder based on file tag, python SDK, yet encountering an error when trying to use my folder path:

from dropbox.files import SearchOptions

# search_op = SearchOptions() # this works but gives me everything from master folder
search_op = SearchOptions(path="/Thang Nguyen/Nano/Photos/Appurtenances/", max_results=10)

dm = dbx.files_search_v2(query="significant", options=search_op)

 raise BadInputError(request_id, res.text)
dropbox.exceptions.BadInputError: BadInputError('58ddfa8a32824ea9b8e80882f2ef3a59', 'Error in call to API function "files/search_v2": invalid_argument')

Also, right now I'm passing in "query" and I'm assuming that would retrieve all files associate with "significant" keyword. How do I specify to search by tags only? Any code example would be a great help.

I also need to implement this function in Java.

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Здравко

@Thang2000, you're getting that error because you have passed invalid argument - path in Dropbox (to either file or folder) cannot end in slash! That's it.

Hope this helps.

Greg-DB

@Thang2000 As Здравко said, the error you're getting is because of the extra "/" you have at the end of your "path" value. Remove that extra slash to get that to work.

The Dropbox Java SDK offers the same search functionality.

As for searching by tags only, unfortunately the Dropbox API (regardless of which SDK you're using, if any) doesn't currently offer an option for restricting the search to match tag values only, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.