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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…
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 ?
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…
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…
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":…
[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 =…
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…
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.
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…
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:
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…
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?
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.…
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,…
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…
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.…
Partial upload
From all i have read on dropbox api it's still not clear for me - is there any way to update file (change part eg first 4 kilobytes) not by uploading whole updated file but only a part that had changed? As i understood desktop client uses it's own private api based on "binary diff" to be super fast. Or partial upload is…
Showing deleted files in API v2
Hi, I just played a little bit with your new cool API Explorer, really cool thing :) Unfortunately, I found out that there seems to be no way to list a folder with all of its current AND deleted files like it could be done with the old /metadata call and the include_deleted option. Am I right with this assumption? Whats…
Using API from Excel VBA
Hello, I'm trying to figure out how the API exactly works to download files from Dropbox from Excel VBA (2010, 2013). The main issue for now is how to get past the authorization part. I'v setup the app in de dev-corner. Status: Development Allow implicit grant: Disallow My https-request to Dropbox is:…
Linked Accounts
Hi, I've been left to maintain an Android application that on a couple of devices has stopped working, and I've traced it down to something which I believe is quite strange. I've typed in the code in question below rather than cut and paste, so excuse any typing errors. try { if (mgr.hasLinkedAccount()) { thisAccount =…
authorization from a java desktop application without the need to declare any redirect url (with ...
out the need for a server-side code to handle the access token) i have develop a JAVA desktop application and right now iam using a server-side code in apache-tomcat to make the authorization and get the access token, and everything is fine. But my partner inform me, that we should not use any web server software, so is…
WIn Store App: The binary Dropbox.Api.dll is built in debug mode.
Hi, I have linked Dropbox.Api.dll using NuGet package. (version 2.1.1) It looks like you have uploaded debug version. Sorry if I'm wrong. Of course, I can download sources from GitHub, but can you provide a solution how to continue using NuGet for Dropbox.Api? Regards, Andrey. Below is the message from Certification Test:…
[Swifty] File search pagination problem
I have a method that counts the number of files that match a query. I'm noticing a problem where the "start" parameter isn't respected. In other words, the following calls return the exact same result: https://gist.github.com/jamesfzhang/8f5ce1bbd79161377eef The documentation says the start parameter means "the starting…
How to get actual Version(revision) number of file containing multiple versions?
I have used "/revisions" to get the all version of file.But I am not getting actual versions of file by sequentially (getting it randomly like 1,4,11,15) Please see the below response of file containing 2 version. For this I expecting 1,2 [ { "revision": 4, "rev": "40000000d", "thumb_exists": false, "bytes": 0, "modified":…
Excessive cursor length
After retrieving a large amount of folders/file using the list_folder function the cursor used to keep track of what has been checked is incredibly long, would it be possible to impose some sort of length limit to this cursor? Cursor: http://pastebin.com/c42ntNR9
upload large file failed
I'm use Dropbox android v1 API,Everything is work fine but upload a large file that has 520MB
How to implement C# web application authentication without notifying user about authencation?
CSharp SDK await dbx.Files.UploadAsync(...) object gets disposed before upload
Hi, although I've mastered uploading text content to Dropbox, when trying to upload byte content (typical file, 18 MB), I get the error: "ERROR: The object was used after being disposed" The code is as follows, and the error was thrown in a try-catch in the second code block: using (var dbx = new DropboxClient("My_Token"))…
How to authenticate without browser/app in c# ?
How to authenticate without browser/app in c# ? I did all the operation on dropbox but at the start(only one time) it ask me for the username & password But I don't want any popup for authentication.I need to do it through code. Here is my sample code where popup out for username & password then I get the token: private…

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