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API v2 equivalent of /1/metadata/link functionality is required
Please let us know the equivalent for API v2 of /1/metadata/link. There are countless reasons why this functionality is important for your API -- which you hopefully already know, otherwise I don't know how /1/metadata/link got made in the first place. If you need stats, a more detailed request or whatever, please let me…
Excel VBA Overriding To Restricted Folders
Hi Dropbox team, Hope you are all well… I am in desperate need of help please. I have created 2 drop box directories, of which I have Full read and write access (these are numbered 31 and 32 see below.). * Folder 1 - 31. 360Storage - The Energy Experts * Folder 2 - 32. 360Storage - The Energy Experts (Ops) I have provided…
AndroidAuthSession, DropboxException are not recognizable
Hello, I deleted the v1 dropbox sdk from my android app and added 3.0.4. The following things are not recognizable by android studio. Where can I check out what to use intead of (for example) AndroidAuthSession? Thanks AndroidAuthSession, DropboxException DropboxAPI private AndroidAuthSession buildSession() throws…
Dropbox v2 API Content-Type header
For confirmation: Is it allowed to use Content-Type header other than "application/octet-stream" and "text/plain; charset=dropbox-cors-hack" when uploading file using Dropbox v2 API (https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload)? I have tried using other Content-Type value (example: multipart_form_data) but an error is…
Using REST API v2 Looking for a way to have returned list of directories in root directory
Developing a client to use DropBox using C++ on a low resource device (no harddrive). Would like to list the contents of a directory such that directories are list at the top and any files below. I have searched through the API list and have found out how to use: * /files/search * /files/list_folder but neither of these…
Getting Streamable URL of Video using API v2 in iOS app
Using API V2, I am able to get metadata of a video file using the below code: [[client.filesRoutes getMetadata:entry.pathDisplay includeMediaInfo:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES] includeDeleted:[NSNumber numberWithBool:NO] includeHasExplicitSharedMembers:[NSNumber numberWithBool:NO]] setResponseBlock:^(DBFILESMetadata *…
API Docs out of date ?
I am trying to quickly implement the v2 API, having discovered by error message that the v1 servers no longer run. The documents I see refer to DBClientManager instead of DropBoxClientManager and the setResponse examples etc are not working. Is this doc out of date? Is there a more up to date doc somewhere? I am having a…
Not receiving notifications on webhook
Hello, I am not receiving notifications on the webhook URL. I have tried hitting the webserver manually with POST to that same endpoint as has been verified by the challenge, and it works just fine. The account I am doing this for is also connected, as I am able to use the authToken to download the files for that user. I…
Folders/Files missing after new computer switch mishap...
Nebulous runs on v1, which was deprecated. Permanote runs on v2. I warned users to switch to Permanote a year ago, but now the holdouts who are switching late are finding they can't see any of the files in their folders on Permanote. I found one creative hack which is to create a new folder on dropbox.com and then…
Re: Is there a way to upload file to my app directly from chooser ?
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Detecting Failure in App for Full dropbox
We have an iPhone app that is configured to upload files to dropbox. Our dropbox account ran out of space, but the upload from the app finished without error message so we did not know the account was out of space. Later on we upgraded our account so that there would be enough space, but the files have not appeared. We…
Alamofire compilation errors after installing the SwiftyDropbox in Xcode project with CocoaPods
Hi there, Since the Dropbox API V1 has been turned off, the file download and upload in all our apps are not working any more. I'm now migrating to the API V2 and using Xcode 8.3.3 and Swift. I followed the instructions here: https://github.com/dropbox/SwiftyDropbox#get-started and successfully installed the SwiftyDropbox…
API v2
My app send me a "v1_retired" message when i try to upload a json file. The command is: $http({ method: 'PUT', url: 'https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files_put/dropbox/'+G_NomeUsuario+'/avisos.json?access_token='+G_AccessToken, data: data What do i have to do for fix it? Thanks. Marcos.
dropbox api v2 files search returns matches where fname does not match query
using the python sdk a search with: dbx.files_search('/Actives', 'f10-13-13.xls') results in the following matches with meta.path_lower_case: * u'/actives/zzzzzzz/gh apotheek - f10-13-1185/gh apotheek - f10-13-1185.xls' * u'/actives/audio techn acq - f10-13-13/audio techn acq - f10-13-13.xlsx' It is not looking into the…
Get parent folder
Is there any way to get parent folder from child file or folder metadata.
Moodle
Hola! tenía mi Dropbox sincronizado con mi Moodle, y podía enlazar archivos sin problemas dentro de un repositorio "Dropbox", pero desde hace unos días me da el siguiente error y ya no me deja acceder: " Error (400) It seems the app you were using submitted a bad request. If you would like to report this error to the app's…
Uploading multiple files at once with thier names
I have this code to upload a simple file curl -k -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/alpha/upload \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN_REDACTED> \ --header 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' \ --header 'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/Apps","mode":{".tag":"add"}}' \ --data-binary @test.sav But the…
UploadWriteFailed(reason=WriteError('disallowed_name', None)
I'm trying to upload a whole folder to dropbox but only the files get uploaded. Should I create a folder programatically or can I solve the folder-uploading so simple? Thanks import os import dropbox access_token = '***********************' dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(access_token) dropbox_destination = '/live' local_directory =…
Retrieve file id after upload, from session_finish
I don't see any way to retrieve the file ID, ie, "id:ABAASD123422" from a session_finish call, ie what is returned is the path of the uploaded file, not an id. I can use the alpha calls (getmetadata) supplying the "path" but of course these are alpha calls. Any way to force the V2 call of session finish to return id's vrs…
Python metadata help
In V1 as metadata was returned in a dictionary all i had to do was myMeta.get("name") to get the name of an item for examle. Whats the best way to get direct info in V2 Do i have to regex the metadata object to get name or content hash or is there better way?
Saver doesn't work
Hi, I have tried uploading some files, but I have not been successful, this always gives me the following message: Error, this download attempt timeout. the files weight only between 50mb - 100mb. Please fix this, thanks.
Chooser and security
I'm a beginner but am now using the Chooser API successfully from a Web app. But I'm concerned about the security of the link obtained. Your description of the returned link is too short and doesn't say anything about security. It says 2 types of links are returned, first is shared and the second is a download, valid for 4…
Migration token OAuth 1 to Oauth 2
Good Afternoon I triyed to update my OAuth 1 token to OAuth 2 through this HTTP request : https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/auth/token/from_oauth1 But the response looks like this : {"error_summary": "invalid_oauth1_token_info/.", "error": {".tag": "invalid_oauth1_token_info"}} This kind of error references to the token…
GET /1/oauth/request_token return 400 error
when I use the API to get token. The dropbox server return 400 error. The request : GET /1/oauth/request_token HTTP/1.1 The response: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request < Server: nginx < Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:01:25 GMT < Content-Type: application/json < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Connection: keep-alive < X-Dropbox-Request-Id:…
Does Dropbox support the UIDocumentPickerModeOpen mode in iOS 8?
I am trying to use the iOS 8 Document Picker to choose a file package from Dropbox, and edit it in-place. However, it seems that only the import and export modes are supported. When I use the open mode, Dropbox doesn't show up in the document picker. Is this something you guys are working on?
High-Level Documentation: Sync Solution or Remote File System
Hi, I'm currently migrating from the old v1 non-Core API to the V2 APIs and the programming model appears to have changed completely. I'm having some fundamental questions about how to best design my new solution and all I can find is a SwiftyDropbox tutorial and a list of API calls, but nothing higher level. I'm looking…
Upload Error with v2 (migration from v1)
Hi I am currently in the process of migrating my code to use v2 and am hitting an error when trying to upload in python. Error: stone_serializers.py", line 887, in _make_stone_friendly raise bv.ValidationError(e.args[0]) ValidationError: client_modified: attribute of type 'NoneType' is not callable I'm not sending a client…
root folder id
How can i get root folder's ID? I read that there is no metadata for root folder. But is there any way to get root folder ID.
API V2 Issue with C# : DropBoxClient.Users.GetCurrentAccountAsync doesn't return
Hi, I recently migrate from API v1 to API v2. I use the Dropbox nugget for C#. Everything was working fine in september (with this new API v2 code) but since today (or the 1st of october) my new code doesn't work. Here is the code : using (dbx = new DropboxClient(Token)) { var full = await…
Objective C batchUploadFiles gives error: "missing required field 'session_id'" or "Garbage at end."
Hi, I am getting the error DropboxBadInputError[{ ErrorContent = "Error in call to API function \"files/upload_session/finish_batch\": request body: entries.cursor: missing required field 'session_id'"; RequestId = 0af1f37eb6e9ebc3e7ea0695db52c593; StatusCode = 400; UserMessage = nil; }]; And "DropboxClientError[{\n…

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