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Correct Auth Method for My App?
I work at a screen printing company, and we are building a design library app to display our designs to users. The images of the designs are stored in our Dropbox account. I have already set up my Dropbox app from the App Console and have successfully retrieved some image links using the API. However, the next day, the…
Dropbox APP Authorization Token Expires
Hello Forum Members, I have a project where I receive public URLs of files, and I save these files to a specific folder structure in Dropbox In my Dropbox account only. I'm using https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-save_url to achieve this using the Dropbox API. Currently, I am able to…
I am having trouble using with_path_root() with python
I have an container-based AWS Lambda that reads from S3 and writes to Dropbox. It has worked for months and it quit working on Saturday (2023-11-17) morning. Given two folders and paths * My Team/folder01/folder02 * Some User # person that created the token using python, when I call files_upload(b'data', 'My…
Error
hello! When I used this API to perform operation https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_file_lock_batch It show this error Cannot convert to JSON, detail: Invalid tag: required Tag.SINGLE_USER, but was Tag.UNLOCKED (through reference chain:…
Getting error in parameter characters
I am getting error related to Dropbox authentication when I'm trying to authenticate from salesforce named credentials. The error is- 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 developer, include the information below. More details for…
Dropbox custom URL scheme
I am developing an expo app. It needs to redirect back to the app after users have given authentication. When I was using expo go for basic testing this seemed to work fine but now that I am testing a development build and eventually a production build my process does not seem to work. I can navigate to…
API not working
Hello Everyone! I try to call "file/upload API but it show this error Error: Error in call to API function "files/upload": Unexpected select user header. Your app does not have permission to use this feature API That I used: https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload and I also give the app access :…
Malformed OAuth2 Access Token When Deployed to Vercel
So I just started using dropbox for a nextjs/react app and everything works fine exactly as it should when I run it locally, but when I deploy to vercel I get a 400 code and the 'Error in call to API function "files/upload": The given OAuth 2 access token is malformed.' message. I've configured my environment variables…
Newly uploaded files create_shared_link API 500 internal
Our subscription payment failed and I just purchased it. Now we get 500 internal server errors using API https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/create_shared_link with Bearer token Authorization. It is working properly on old files but when we upload a new file it gives an error. PLEASE FIX IT ASAP.
Error, When using Batch Operation
hello, When I use batch operation like Create folder in batch The operation perform but it show this kind of error Indivisual operation like Create folder, Copy File is working fine and give the JSON also but in Batch operation this error Cannot convert to JSON, detail: Invalid tag: required Tag.COMPLETE, but was…
How to detect Dropbox folder is renamed. via Dropbox http-api or java-sdk
After rename folder in Dropbox.Dropbox 2/files/list_folder/continue api give response that indicate old folder and it's all sub-folder deleted and folder with new name and all old sub-folder with new path created. For example: 1. Have folder name 'contract test sub category 1' that have sub-folder named 'contract test sub…
POJOs representing the Webhook event.
Hi there, I am developing an integration with Dropbox and using Java SDK. While adding the webhooks based event notification functionality, I couldn't find the POJOS out of the SDK representing these. I could see this com.dropbox.core.v2.webhooks.DropboxWebhookEvent on internet, but couldn't spot the same in SDK, please…
download file from bussiness teams
So ihave a bussines teams folder inside i have some .mdb file that want to download automatic, but the problem is that i cant access to the bussines folder so i created a shared link shared_link = dropbox.files.SharedLink(url=url) for entry in dbx.files_list_folder(path='', shared_link=shared_link).entries: if…
When trying to list folder contents, error happens
Hello, New to Dropbox API. I can create folders and files, but when I try to list the contents of a folder, I get an error message. I'm particularly interested in getting the contents of the root folder, but for now, I'm just trying to test it with a specific folder I have. I'm…
API command to view file content in web browser
Hi, I'd like to integrate Dropbox deeply into a web app, and one of the biggest required features is to be able to view the contents of the file in a HTML frame, much like the corrent dropbox.com does when you click to view a file in the browser, and you see the comments on the side as well. Being able to retrieve and list…
Getting content of folders using Dropbox API in Python not working anymore since last update
There has been an update in Dropbox and also in the API somewhere in the last week. I have a Python script to retrieve the content of a Dropbox folder and it is not working anymore. The call was just as simple as: - dbx: the active connection to Dropbox (this is still working correct) - folder_path: the directory in which…
Create a Dropboxdirectory from code
Hi I want to create a directory from a C# program in Dropbox. When I run this from my desktop PC everything works perfectly. As soon as I run the program from my laptop I get the error message: Dropbox.Api.BadInputException: "Error in call to API function "files/create_folder_v2": Your app is not permitted to access this…
New to Dropbox.Api trying the basics and getting a bit stuck
Hey Everyone, I am using Dropbox.Api (Nuget) and can access my Account info (Name, Email Root Space Id) via Generated Access Token However when I do a simple var list = await dbx.Files.ListFolderAsync(string.Empty); It returns no items though I have many folders and subfolders in my account. I have a Dropbox Plus Personal…
Share App folder
Hello, this is my first time building an app for an internal project use. The aim is to integrate a shared space into a data pipeline so we can access files shared with us from a third party. We have granted that party access to our app so they also can integrate our Dropbox app folder into their pipeline and drop their…
Acces token for python django
Hello, im trying to acces with a django porject to my own account files but the short live tokens renew each 4 hours i tried generating the offline token but it results on renewing it again, i am not that into oauth so im having issues on this part oculd someone helpme trying to get arround this issue, again is for my own…
Generating refresh token offline
I have a PHP application that must send files to a Dropbox account every day. I read that I have to use refresh token offline for it to work. So I go to this url to generate the first refresh token: https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?token_access_type=offline&response_type=code&client_id=MYAPPCODE It redirect me on a…
Access-Control-Allow-Origin
i'm using javascript fetch(url, { method: 'GET', mode: 'cors', cache: 'no-cache', credentials: 'same-origin', headers: myHeaders, referrer: 'no-referrer', } Error:- Access to fetch at 'https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2pca6kq8nsqmso/abb5c48dae55560e4ae7d41af7bfdc50.jpg?raw=1' from origin 'http://localhost:8080' has been blocked…
About DropBox Developer API Access Token
Hello Developers! I am new to Dropbox API and I am facing issues with Access Tokens. I am building a MERN application where I have to store the access token in environmental variables. Here as Access Token is short-lived, I must refresh it each time I work with it. Is there any other way that those Access Tokens can be…
File path from URL
Hello, Is there any way to get file path from file's URL. Example: If a file - "fileName.m4v" lives inside "folder1/sub-folder1" and its dropboxURL is https://www.dropbox.com/s/something/fileName.m4v?dl=0. I am looking for function/code that takes URL as parameter and returns filePath ("folder1/sub-folder1/fileName.m4v")
Program for generating direct download links
If I create a program that will generate automatic download links for direct downloads, will there be any problems with the company's policy? and what needs to be done for this
API which we can be used to fetch the content of a folder.
Is there any API that we can use to fetch the content of a folder created through salesforce by integrating salesforce with dropbox?
How to authenticate and stream a video file
Hello, Question: How can I authenticate and stream a video file using api? Context: I am working on a tool that should authenticate first to access a user file (I understand the token-ing process) and once I have access to a video file I want to stream it using C# dropbox api. Thanks
Dropbox API to get files in a particular folder
which dropbox api i can use to get all the files in a particular folder
Help to remove error
Hi everyone, Good morning I got a error when I try to upload a pic using dropbox This is image path that I give: "C:\Users\ADITYA\Downloads\imagetest.jpg" This is error that I get : Image file not found at the specified path: C:/Users/ADITYA/Downloads/imagetest.jpg Reason: Snap failed unexpectedly and did not provide any…
Dropbox paper for apps with app folder permission
Hello team , I see we cannot create/share dropbox paper with app folder permission through api . Giving write access to scoped app where the entire dropbox content is accessible is not secure . It would be great to have an api to create paper with app folder permission . Thank you.

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