Can I sync the website tags to my desktop app with the use of Dropbox API?

Question

Hi !

I recently downloaded Dropbox Desktop in order to sync a folder on my Windows laptop.

I plan to build a software that would interact with the Dropbox API, assign tags on my files so I can then filter them later in my local dropbox folder.

However, it seems that tags assigned on the dropbox server (website or API) don't get synced in windows. Am I doing something wrong ?

The documentation on tags is not very exhaustive on this subject so I don't know if it's intended or not.

If this functionnality isn't available (or is planned in future versions), could you provide me alternative solutions

Nancy · Accepted Answer

Thanks for posting on our Community, @nitsugua!

If you’re referring to the tags that appear on the Dropbox website, these aren’t synced to the desktop app indeed.

However, you may be able to code an app this way to retrieve the tags in your app and assign them to files on your machine.

Since this isn’t our area of expertise though, I’ve moved your post to the API section of the forum, in case another user can share something more on this.

Hope this helps a bit.