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Picker error on Internet Explorer 11 when invoked during page load
- i am loading file picker when a html page loads - on Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge browsers it works fine - On IE-11 it gives error. error in console > SCRIPT5022: Failed to open/load the window. Dropbox.choose and Dropbox.save should only be called from within a user-triggered event handler such as a tap or click…
C# upload file with username and password
is it ok to upload file with username and password without app access token? if no, can I create app access token by using username and password in C#. Thanks
How to know upload progress to use it in QProgressBar (python)
this is my code please edit it to get the value of upload progress. import pathlib import dropbox import re # the source file folder = pathlib.Path("C:\\Users\\Hossam\\Desktop\\test\\backup") # located in this folder filename = "20180911-183844.sql" # file name filepath = folder / filename # path object, defining the file…
Dropbox API
Hello, Anyone have an example with a page to acess dropbox from asp net mvc project page? Note: I have already created the app, and I have the keys also. I just need the page example. Regards.
dropbox saver questions
I have a website uses the Dropbox saver and chooser to upload/download files. The saver stopped working..(it worked last week..) The error I got is 'Job reached max retry attempts'..even the file is just a 8kb text file. I see others posted questions about the same error..but they upload from gmail chrome plugin.., but I'm…
API Limits using /2/files/download
Hello, I'm developing a single-user app (1 access token), via the Python AP I, to share many files (~200K totally approx 1TB) from a Business account. As such, the plan is to use Dropbox.files_download_to_file 1. Would Rate Limiting cause issues here, e.g. what if `files_download_to_file` was used to download the entire…
how to choose save location on downloadasync
seen the tutorial using dbx.Files.DownloadAsync(folder + "/" + file) but is there a way to specify saved file location? using c#
Watch received files in a dropbox account
Hello, I would like to watch for changes to all files in a Dropbox account. I have implemented the following: 1) Call /list_folder/get_latest_cursor to get a cursor to a users files. I store this locally. 2) I then call list_folder/continue and get any delta from previous hanges and store the new cursor locally. This then…
What is the API v2 get_events event updation time lag ?
One of the params we send in the get_events call is time : {start_time: .. , end_time: ..} If current time is 6 pm and we specify end_time to be 6 pm , will all the events that happened before 6pm be there in the response / the caller has to account for eventually populated events and keep a buffer and make calls only with…
Error while using chooser/saver: "Uh oh! Seems like this widget is not configured properly...."
I am trying demo for chooser/saver demo at https://codepen.io/gauravsc/pen/dqRGjv I am getting error "Uh oh! Seems like this widget is not configured properly. Origin does not match any app domain". I have added www.codepen.io in Chooser/Saver domains in app settings. Below is my code. I am getting error at both…
SFTP Connection for Web Developers
Hello! I would like to setup a Dropbox account so that all my cPanel files are available to view, edit and upload through my dropbox account. Basically, I have a server running cPanel with a file manager, a Dropbox account and Sublime Text. What I want to do is have all the files on the server available on Dropbox in real…
Error while uploading a zip file using Python script
I'm trying to write a Python script where there would be a list of "paths" to files and they would serially be uploaded to my Dropbox. I thought of uploading a directory as a Zip archive if the list contains such an element. It's just a silly project but just for learning purposes. I'm using a shell script to Zip that…
Umlauts in file names
Hi, I am using the v2 API for http. What I found is that if a file or folder name contains a special character, like a German Umlaut like ä, I get a 400 error on upload and download. Is this a bug? During download the response text is "Error in call to API function "files/download": HTTP header "Dropbox-API-Arg": could not…
propertySearch result is messed in Android SDK 3.0.5
Hi! I'm trying to use Dropbox as a backup platform for my app. To store files on your side I use informative file names and properties to keep original file names and tagging files that are generated by my app. Here is an example: Tag key name is "CACR", tag value is "CACR" Original filename key name is "CACRFLNM", value…
New team events API available now
Developers building for Dropbox Business can now use the new team events API to power their workflow and analytic applications. Dropbox Business provides an activity log that records all of the key events taken on a team. An admin on a Business team can use the events in the Admin Console to audit and monitor activity…
Java API for Team Folder Operations
Hi Team, I'm using dropbox V2 API with the Java library: dropbox-sdk-java 3.0.8. I would like to have features as below: User (who are part of team) can i. List Team Folders, ii. Create Folder inside Team Folder iii. Upload Files in Team Folders My question is: 1. For all above functionality, I am using OAuth 2 access…
how to start with the .NET API for DropBox for Business
Hello, maybe my question is a bit complicated. So I will explain what I have to do. I have to build an application to manage technical drawings for our company. There will be a shared database (using a webservice we already have), and in that database we will store where the drawing effectively stays. The drawings files…
Shared Folder For All Users, But Without Access To It
Hello! I want to make an app that uses a shared data base. As I experimented with the SwiftDropbox SDK, I learned that an app folder is created for every user. Can I use Dropbox, so that every new user linked to my app gets access to the same folder, but can only read and write, but not delete the files? Thank you! Raphael
Dropbox Business API search by file name
Hi, I need to search for a file by it name in team directories. At the moment it searches in the personal directory only and I cannot find a solution. Here is my last API request: curl -X POST "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search" \ --header "Authorization: Bearer flxOQ8bIfzAAAAAAAAABR_XTx_ESr_token_here" \ --header…
Using Dropbox offline with HTML/JS webmapping app (iPad)
Hi, I have an HTML/JS webmapping application which needs to work offline on iPad (and sync back to base when online). Dropbox seemed to provide the only workable solution. Users should be able to add point features to the webmap and save them to a text file (geojson) in the offline dropbox folder on iPad. I have created a…
Download a file with the API
Hi I'm using https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-api-v2-explorer/#files_download for download file. I want to provide directly a link to the end user or download start just load the code. I'm using the dropbox API from a server side. If I use this method I will need two steps to download a file (1. from Dropbox to my…
User part of a TEAM does not have different Root Namespace Id than Home Namespace Id
Team, can you please help me on this. Does older User Account created prior to Team Space configuration can also have different Root NameSpace ID comared to Home Namespace ID? For some of the user account, even though they are part of a TEAM, querying on user's current account API results something like this: that is same…
Create new Dropbox user using Powershell
Code -------------------- Function New-DropBoxUser { [CmdletBinding()]Param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true,Position=0)] [string]$FullName) # Split name into username # $FirstName, $LastName = $FullName.split(' ') $UserName = ($FirstName[0]+$LastName).toLower() $email = "$UserName@mycomp.com" $Body = @{…
Dropbox for Business - Queries
Hello, I am developing a solution for Dropbox for Business. I have few queries: 1. Can we have 2 owners of a shared folder or a team folder ? 2. For a Dropbox team having single team admin, can we delete its admin ? 3. If a team admin is deleted, do we get any web-hook notification telling us whether the team admin deleted…
video size is 0 bytes on upload
when i upload my app using php api version 2 it upload the file but the size of file is 0 bytes below is mine code ..... can someone guide me $headers = array('Authorization: Bearer '. $token, 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream', 'Dropbox-API-Arg: '. json_encode( array( "path"=> '/'. date("l-m-y") .'/'.…
Hosting my app and content
Hi, there are a couple of points in the developer's reference guide I don't quite understand. I want to use DropBox to host my app, and any downloadable content I create for it. My app will be freely-available worldwide, and it will contact my *Free* DropBox account upon startup and check/download any updates. I don't…
Change in dropbox folder triggers Webhook twice.
Hey, I have configured Webhook in a dropbox app to listen to any changes on a shared folder. It works fine in my local development envrionment(I am using ngrok to expose my local web server localhost:3000). I only got 1 webhook call each change. However, whenever any file change, including upload, rename, delete and so…
await DropboxOAuth2Helper.ProcessCodeFlowAsync() doesn't completed and breaks between the loop.
I want to get access token using OAuth2Response response = await DropboxOAuth2Helper.ProcessCodeFlowAsync(code, AppKey, AppSecret, uriBuilder.Uri.AbsoluteUri); in C#.Net (not MVC). Created a method: public async Task ProcessDropboxCallback(string code) { var AppKey = ""; var AppSecret = ""; var uriBuilder = new…
[python] Can't delete file whit the method files_delete_v2 but can delete folder
Hi, I'm using the python API for my project. I try to delete some file but when i'm using the method files_delete_v2 it only work whit folder, whit file it simply do nothing no error message I can simply see on my dropbox account that the file still exist. I try the files_delete method but it's doing the same thing.
Mix Chooser and SDK
Hello, I am currently working on app (full permission) where I would like to choose a folder and then display the content on a webpage. It is important that it should be constantly looking for changes in that folder, so I am using longPoll endpoint. My current flow is: Press a button 'Authorize' to get the access_token and…

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