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Dropbox als Speicher für eigene Cloud Seite
Guten Tag, Ich habe mir eine eigene Homepage eingerichtet, wo ich u.a. auch OwnCloud installiert habe, damit ich ein Dropbox ähnliches Netzwerk aufbaue. Das Problem ist das ich nur einen Speicher von 5 GB auf meinem Webspace habe. Ist es möglich wenn sich jemand in meiner Seite registriert, dass der Speicher von Dropbox…
Android authentication
In the previous api login could be performed to the device dropbox account by using the api key and the api secret, is there any way to do this with V2? What a I need is to be able to connect to diferent dropbox accounts in V2?
How to get error responses java api
Is there at all a way to get the error responses out of an exception thrown by the API without parsing out the subclasses. More detailed question
Dropbox chunks upload slow & unpredictable
I am trying to upload files larger than 150 MB using Dropbox API v2 on iOS. Problem is upload is sometimes slow, sometimes it hangs in the middle for several seconds, sometimes it stalls in the middle forever without failing or invoking the failure block. Using chunk sizes less than 50 MB makes it more reliable but chunk…
Can we download shared files directly using Dropbox API
Hello All, Can we download files from sharing section(without mounting it into MyFiles section) using Dropbox API v2. Please suggest me. Thanks.
How to add webhook in simple java project
I have used Java SDK to develop simple upload, download methods. Now I want to add support of webhooks in the same project. I don't find a good example for that anywhere. I don't want to move my project to spring.
Uploading big file using Objective-C API V2 very SLOW...
Hello, recently our app updates the Dropbox related code from API V1 to API V2. Usually we need to transfer files to Dropbox, it is OK for small files, but for video files of size about 1.5 GB the progress is very slow, and often the upload is stopped due to request timeout.... We use the following API calls: 1. Start the…
API v2 c# upload file
Hi Dears, am using asp.net core/c# i want upload folder but its not working using (var stream = new MemoryStream(File.ReadAllBytes(@E:\a.txt))) { var response = client.Files.UploadAsync("/test/" + "a.txt", WriteMode.Overwrite.Instance, body: stream); } please can anyone helop me
Dropbox integration with other applications
Hey, We have developed an on-premises application and have integrated dropbox older version. Now since dropbox has upgraded its API we have no other option than to migrate from v1 to v2. But the problem in v2 is that we require dynamic redirect uri options. That is we will have different redirect uri for different users.…
How to get a list of files and folders present in a publicly shared folder?
Hi, I am new to Dropbox API and creating a python app for a publicly shared link. I want to get a list of files and folders and their modified date present in the said publicly shared link. I am looking for something similar to "files_list_folder" in terms of functionality. Thanks.
Is is possible to set per file custom metadata in dropbox?
I would like to store application specific data (text for json) using the APIs. Cheers Fernando
Python SDK undocumented error on file_upload()
Hi all, I'm having troubles uploading files using the file_upload method using Python's dropbox module. I've setup an app(giving it full access to my dropbox account, not just folder access) and created an AUTHSTRING for my python code to use. Important thing to note is, I'm trying to upload a file with custom properties -…
"docx" and "xls" files are not getting uploaded using Java API
Hi Team, Recently we have wsitched to apiv2 version. I am using java for development. Files with "docx" and "xls" extensions showing below exception while uploading. Other file extensions such as "pdf", "xlsx" etc. are working. com.dropbox.core.NetworkIOException: content.dropboxapi.com at…
Dropbox invalid domain name
Hi there, Not sure why but I can't seem to get a domain to verify on the Dropbox app page. Any help with this?
How does Redirect URI in App Console work?
Hi there, I've been trying to get my head around OAuth redirect URI and it makes no sense to me! Can someone please explain to me how it works and how I make my plugin do the thing it should do? I'm using a Wordpress plugin call External Media and it asked me to create an app. So far so good. I created the app and gave the…
Does new Dropbox version required SSL for my website to communicated
There is Erorr while Uploading Issue Image into dropbox: {"error": "v1_retired"} I know i have updated my code due to change in version can you provide me the link that will guide me.
Doubts related to mounting files, sharing folder & creating subfolder under sharng section.
Hello All, I want to share folder. I was able to share folder using https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-add_folder_member api. I need to post shared_folder_id & email_id or account_id to this api then I could share this folder. But some folders from MyFiles section which does not…
Python sdk error DropboxAuth2Flow
I am using python sdk to list and download files but getting stuck at authetication. Using this code to authenticate user to allow access. from dropbox import DropboxOAuth2Flow, oauth import http_status APP_KEY = 'mykey' APP_SECRET = 'mysecretkey' def get_dropbox_auth_flow(web_app_session): redirect_uri =…
Authentication with new api v2, generated token, aways return users null to me
Dear dropbox comunity, I cannot complete a full authentication within my dropbox account and my android application. The app is in development status, with generated token by console, and the users object is always null after connection.... mDboxClientV2.users().getCurrentAccount() I have to ask you, why i'm always getting…
Unable to obtain access token
Hi! I'm a BlackBerry 10 dev and almost done in developing fully-featured Dropbox client with API v2 for BB10 since the official app has retired. At that moment I have to complete a few things before the app will be finished. One of them: obtaining access token. I send an address to mobile browser:…
Displaying modified date properly
I'm using ListFolderAsync in asp.net. Why doesn't it return the modified date time based on the logged in user's Account time zone? Any idea how to display it in the Account's time zone? Thanks.
The Dropbox API V2 not compatible with React Native
I am not able to use the filesUpload endpoint with react native. Simply because it is not possible with React Native to set the content type to one of the 'Content-Type' header accepted by the API. I get the following error: Error in call to API function "files/upload": Bad HTTP "Content-Type" header:…
OSStatus error -10814 when trying DBRoulette app
Hi, I'm currently trying to run the DBRoulette app in I always have the following errors. 2017-12-13 21:42:39.916165+0100 DBRoulette[20354:830384] -canOpenURL: failed for URL: "dbapi-2://1/connect" - error: "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -10814.)" 2017-12-13 21:42:39.917405+0100…
File permissions in shared folders
Hi, I'm using Dropbox business team and want to programmatically list permissions on a file or folder. Using the apis, I'm able to retrieve the list of files and folders + a couple of properties. However I'm unable to find a way to list the permissions. Language : C# Whic api should I use? Do you have a working sample?…
Does the new Metadata API / File Properties endpoint expose extended attributes?
Reading what's available, it seems like this is more for custom data, but I can't find anything about it preserving or reading existing data. Specifically, I'm looking for a solution to read & write file tags across macOS & iOS.
Share folder with path instead of folder id
Is it possible to use an API call to share a folder with a user using the folder path instead of the folder id?
Dropbox should respond to Android Intent.ACTION_SEND
My android app uses the code below to allow users to back up an important file. A number of applications, including Google Drive, appear as suitable services to handle the file, but Dropbox does not appear, even though it offers the same functionality as Google Drive. Could you please change Dropbox so that it appears and…
deleteFilesV2 Error - Javascript SDK
I'm getting a 'Request has been terminated...' console error with this code below. I imagine it's no different than the filesUpload(arg) class but it's not working for me. Is there something wrong with my code? function deleteFile(){ dbx.filesDeleteV2({path: "/humanities.txt"}) .then(function(response){…
API v2: Dropbox integration to website
I want to to sync user dropbox account with our website so that user can directly upload their documents from our site.I am using Dotnet and had done following code string appkey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("Appkey").ToString(); string appSecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("AppSecret").ToString();…
Maximum Retry attempts
When I try to upload a PDF via api, I get this error, {"status": "FAILED", "error": "Job reached maximum retry attempts"} File size is around 1 MB, do I need to enable something in the settings?

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