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prabhat1999

I have manually added the tags to a folder.
now I want to search the folders with the given tag.
is there a way to get only folders not files?

PS:- I am aware of 2/files/search_v2 API but I want to search folders from their tags not with the folder name

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Greg-DB

You can use /2/files/search_v2 to search for items, and set options.file_categories to "folder" to restrict the results to folders only. Refer to the documentation for more information. You can also try out calls using the API v2 Explorer.

prabhat1999

how to seach with tag name

as shown in the image the tag in "testingTag"

I want to search for folders with this tag

Rich

@prabhat1999 wrote:
how to seach with tag name

Just to be clear, are you asking how to perform this search on the Dropbox website in your browser, or are you using an app or other programing to do the search? I ask because you've posted this in the API section, which is for people that are programming their own application to connect to Dropbox.

Здравко

@prabhat1999 wrote:
how to seach with tag name
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I want to search for folders with this tag

@prabhat1999, It's impossible, unfortunately. Dropbox API (including Python SDK, you are using) doesn't provide such a feature.

prabhat1999

I am creating a custom program to search the folder with specific tags

Здравко

If you want, once listing folders as denoted by Greg, you may check all folders for available tags and filter them accordingly (on your own).

@prabhat1999, There is a way. 😉 In your case, try search with query "#testingtag". It's something undocumented.

Hope this helps.

Greg-DB

That's correct, while this is not officially documented, you can put a tag as the search query for /2/files/search_v2 to search for the tag.

For example, in the Python SDK, along with setting the "folder" category, that would look like this:

result = dbx.files_search_v2(query="#testingtag", options=dropbox.files.SearchOptions(file_categories=[dropbox.files.FileCategory.folder]))