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Can you get dropbox shared folder metadata without accessing the api?
I am accessing dropbox files through the shared folder on my machine rather than the API. Is there a way to access the shared folder data like user name and email through this route?
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Datastores / End of life / Questions
Is there any page I can go to check the service status for the dropbox datastore servers (I know in the process of being deprecated). Has there been any reduction in the available servers or whatnot for datastores, is there any kind of Ramp down ? Obviously I'll try my best to get rid of all the datastore stuff before you…
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Dropbox API v2 /delete issue + improvement request
Hi Gregory, team Just few notes on /delete in Dropbox API v2. https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-delete Issue: The return codes for DELETE are not very clear. One can get a path_write (WriteError) with "conflict" (documented as "Couldn't write to the target path because there was…
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I want to read .json file by http api
I want to read .json file by http api what api??
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iOS - loadStreamableURLForFile Causes Error 429 (too much traffic)
I'm developing an app that allows me to stream the videos I'm storing in Dropbox down to a client application on iOS. I authenticate appropriately, locate the file and call loadStreamableURLForFile to pass to the AVPlayer on iOS to display. Everything works great, the video plays. But about 1 hour in (it's a two-hour 1.7GB…
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Is linking necessary to download files?
Is it possible to download files from my app folder (Dropbox) to my app without linking an account? If so, how would I do that?
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How to filter a folder by File Format using SwiftyDropbox?
Hi :) I’m working on an app that deals with text files and I want to present a list of files in a folder, but only files with a specific format. For example, only .txt or .md files. Is it possible? If it is, How can I do that? Thanks :)
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Timeout for request to Dropbox API
A User reported that after logging out of his Dropbox account, he gets this message: "The request to link the app is invalid" . I can't replicate the issue here. I had him do some extra logging but saw nothing in the console that looked odd, expect for multiple occurrences of timeout for request to…
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Dropbox .NET CreateFolderAsync fails for Top level folder.
The code is simple: The mClient is logged in to access my APP folder. public async Task<FolderMetadata> CreateFolder(String DBPath) { return await mClient.Files.CreateFolderAsync(DBPath); } 1) A DBPath = "New Folder" fails 2) a DBPath = "/Status/New Folder" works Now with more testing ... I find the "/New Folder" works.…
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Getting HTTP 401 on for access_token one some server
Hi guys, We came across a strange issue, when trying to get a access token the the OAuth1 API, the successive calls to "request_token" and "authorize" are working fine, but its is time to access "https://api.dropbox.com/1/oauth/access_token", we receive an Unauthorized/401 response for the POST. What is the more strange is…
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Dropbox app for web application and native mobile apps
Hi, I have a Dropbox app that is being used to authenticate and authorize my web application to access resources on a user's Dropbox account. The authentication is done via OAuth 2.0 and I obtain a refresh token at the end of successful authentication. Now I am developing an android and an iOS app and they should also be…
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Shared Folder Metadata
The help on this topic is: * shared_folder_id optional The ID of a specific shared folder. * include_membership Required if shared_folder_id is specified. If true, include a list of members and a list of groups for the shared folder. * show_unmounted optional This value, either true or false(default), determines whether…
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Get all users' files/folders info in my organization using dropbox rest/java API
I need to get the files/folders info from other users in my organization using the rest/java API. I could get the files/folders info only for the user that asked for the token, I couldn't find anything about it in the API. Is this thing possible?
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Is there a Upload widget that I can embed on my site?
Hello Dropbox and comminity! I was wondering if there is a dropbox upload widget that I can embed to my site for users to upload files to a specific folder of mine? Sharing is not the only important thing for me you see, we need our visitors to upload their content to us. We would like to set the maximum file size per…
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Retrieve access_token from Dropbox Chooser
In our app, we use Dropbox chooser to get files from Dropbox. But the files are downloaded in the backend, so we just send the url of the chosen files to the backend to do the job. Is it possible the retrieve access_token directly from the Chooser to avoid implementing the Authentication flow ?
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api v1 uid to api v2 account_id conversion
I have an application using api v1. I store dropbox account ids of format: "123456789". However when I try to use v2 api's get_account call and I add the parameter account_id : "123456789" I get an error message: "must be at least 40 characters, got 9" Is there any way to use get_account call with the old uid format. What…
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Please Add An Additional Step To The Swift API instructions
I just finished successfully installing the swift dropbox framework in Xcode. I followed the instructions at https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/swift#install . I kept getting the error message on my import statement for SwiftyDropbox saying "No such module 'SwiftyDropbox'". I spent several hours working to…
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List folders at root (list_folder v2 API)
Is it possible to list the contents of the Dropbox root directory from the v2 APIs? Calling the list_folder endpoint as follows yields an error: curl -H 'authorization: Bearer ****' -H 'content-type: application/json' 'https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder' -d '{ "path": "/" }' {"error_summary":…
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[request-id 953b09474eb624414a4a43c7eeabc88c] API route error - { ".tag" = path; path = ...
{ ".tag" = "not_file"; }; I am trying to download a file using SwiftyDropbox. I can connect to Dropbox ok and I can access my Dropbox files, but I cannot download files. My code: let client = Dropbox.authorizedClient let destination : (NSURL, NSHTTPURLResponse) -> NSURL = { temporaryURL, response in let fileManager =…
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How to use access token in Dropbox authentication in Android app
Hello. I'm trying to make an Android application that uses Dropbox. I managed to upload some files to Dropbox so that is working. But I would like to store the access token so that the user doesn't need to authenticate every time. Your tutorial says: " The finishAuthentication() method will bind the user's access token to…
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uploadasync is always overwriting
Here is my code: var updated = await dbx.Files.UploadAsync("/Apps/design-orders" + "/" + file.FileName, WriteMode.Add.Instance, true, body: mem); I have tried different combinations of the mode and autorename parameters but it always overwrites the existing file. I would like it to rename if the file name already exists.
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Getting Error unable to find valid certification path to requested target
I'm trying to use the dropox java sdk. Trying to run a simple test. But I get the following error when running this code DbxEntry.WithChildren listing = clientV1.getMetadataWithChildren("/"); com.dropbox.core.DbxException$NetworkIO: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path…
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API v2 move file 500 error
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-api-v2-explorer/#move API version: dropbox API v2 description: move file 500 error Thank you for your help! screen_shot_01: screen_shot_02:
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dropbox api - search for files and content
I'm trying to build java app that search for files including a "word" in a content of files inside dropbox folder. As we can see in drpobox docs:https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http#documentation-files-search we can do that using "filename_and_content". I suppose that the fragment of java code allowing to…
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Drop-ins App
Once upon a time, you were able to choose between an Drop-ins app and an API app. I'm needing a Drop-ins app in order to correctly install a plugin on my website but I'm not finding this option. Is this option still available?
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Java dropbox GUI
How would one go about creating a uploadFile method in Java that has a GUI? for example I am trying to use JFileChooser to execute a selected file in which I can click on the file and call the file and pass it into a file then send it out as a fileInputStream so looking at the code cause its a lot easier to explain.…
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Help upload file 20-100mb
Hello. I can not upload files larger than 10MB . Can someone help me ? I'm a beginner in Java. Here is my code : DbxClient client = connect(); BufferedInputStream file = new BufferedInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(body)); try { if (body.length<8381002) { DbxEntry.File uploadedFile = client.uploadFile("/" + name,…
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ANDROID - zip file problem
Hello, I making android app with dropbox API and I have a problem. My app zips folder on android device and uploads it on dropbox, it works. If I download zip file from dropbox to my PC, I can extract it but if I download this file using dropbox api method getFile with code below, downloaded zip file is corrupted and…
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Case insensitivity inconsistent in metadata for folder names
I'm working with an app that is trying to sync files from its App folder within Dropbox and the directory structure is as such: /Apps/picpi/Ange-Art/2015-06-09-DevilsTower Because of the App, the folder is seen as /Ange-Art/2015-06-09-DevilsTower and the directory structure on the local side is created using these names.…