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Owner account of shared folder

Using C# and the Dropbox API and having attached shared folders from another Dropbox accounts, how do I retrieve the Dropbox account ids that own these shared folders?

Both my account and the owners of the shared folders use Dropbox Basic, thus no teams.

I need this account id to identify the folder holding the files reported to my webhook.

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DB-Des

Hi @GustavBrock,

Sending a request to /sharing/list_folder_members endpoint will return the members of a shared folder.

For member groups, there will be a property "group_id" per member group. For individual members, there will be an "account_id" property per member.

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DB-Des

Hi @GustavBrock,

Sending a request to /sharing/list_folder_members endpoint will return the members of a shared folder.

For member groups, there will be a property "group_id" per member group. For individual members, there will be an "account_id" property per member.

GustavBrock

Thanks!

I have the Dropbox.Api package installed to serve other tasks. Could this be used to retrieve the account_id? I can retrieve the folder metadata but this seems not to include the account_id.

DB-Des

Hi @GustavBrock,

In order to further assist, could you provide the following?

the name and version number of the platform and SDK/library you are using, if any
the steps to reproduce the issue, including relevant code snippet(s), but don't include any access or refresh token(s)
the full text of any error or unexpected output

GustavBrock

It is 7.0.0

I got it working. The https call responded with a missing scope error, because I hadn't set permission for sharing_read. That I did and reauthorized, and now also the Dropbox.Api code runs:

internal async Task ListFiles(DropboxClient dbx)
{
    List<Metadata> allFolders = new List<Metadata>();

    // <snip> .. fill allFolders

    foreach (var item in allFolders)
    {
        if (item.IsFolder)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"{item.AsFolder.Id} - {item.Name}");

            string sharedFolderId = item.AsFolder.SharingInfo.SharedFolderId;
            var folderMembers = await dbx.Sharing.ListFolderMembersAsync(sharedFolderId);
            var owner = folderMembers.Users.Where(user => user.AccessType.IsOwner).FirstOrDefault();
            if (owner != null)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"Owner Account ID: {owner.User.AccountId}");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Owner not found.");
            }
        }
    }
}

Thank you. Have a nice weekend!

GustavBrock

@DB-Des: I forgot to return a thank you for your fast attention. Much appreciated!

DB-Des

@GustavBrock,

My pleasure! I'm glad to see you got it working.