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Building a new app seeking advice on where to start looking
I am creating a mobile app for our "operators" to access a database held in our Dropbox. I will need them to access their database file, download it to their tablet, modify the file during their work day then replace the file in the Dropbox. I have made the file available offline in the Dropbox app on the tablet and copy…
Vb.Net can upload a file to dropbox
Can you help me guys? Im trying to upload my first file to dropbox using vb.net. But Still have error: Status-Code:0, Content-type:0 My code below, can you correct me where do I do a mistake? Public Sub Main() Dim sourceFile As String = "C:\Users\rw\Desktop\Proximus_logo.png" Dim data As Byte() =…
https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders should return all folders user can access?
Hi, I've been looking at the below endpoint, forgive me if this is a silly question. Should this return all folders I can access in the dropbox ui? https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders I'm making a request to a users Dropbox using this header Dropbox-API-Select-User with the user id. This works with out any…
One user can't see his Dropbox folders or files in my iOS app
My iOS app has had the Dropbox API integrated into it for several years. Our users use it to save and load files into our app. This week one user reported that it's not showing any of their folders or files EXCEPT their "Vault" folder. He has sent screenshots of his Dropbox contents on both his Mac and iOS Dropbox App and…
Trying to move files in Powershell gives Error 404
Good day all, I am new to dropbox development and am trying to do something simple, post a file to one directory (done) and then have another script move that file to another directory after downloading it. I am just working on the move piece and keep getting a 404 error and nothing seems to work. And the…
Dropbox scoped-app folder: Visibility of uploaded files to other users
We have a scoped-app, which mounts a folder owned by the app into my account. By piecing-together an invitation URL, we can mount it into other users' accounts as well (all are licensed under a team account). We can formulate a URL to generate an offline access-token, but we couldn't see any events for user operations…
dbx.files_move Error
I am getting Error listing folder contents: ApiError('NUMBERSANDLETTERS', ListFolderError('path', LookupError('not_folder', None))) This comes from this line of code: dbx.files_move(source_path, destination_path) I believe I am getting this error because of the to_path. Is that how I should read this error statement? My…
why the token is becoming obsolete?
I use the dropbox api. But after a few hours, my token is no longer working. How do I make the token work forever?
API "List Folder" , no team folder
The Api-Call "list-folder" only read und list my private folder, but not the team folder. All folders in the team folder are not displayed. All permissions are set and i also tried the call with a "Dropbox-API-Select-Admin"-Header. Without the "Admin-Header", no folder are listed because "the OAuth 2 access token you…
Add webhooks
Hi Team, We are interested to know the information via webhook whenever our provider Jot Form adds the PDF file to my dropbox account. So that our program will get the PDF file via dropbox SDK. Could you please guide me on how to add the webhook and also provide the sample request body when a file is added to the dropbox…
Transferring Ownership of Dropbox Developers App
Hi, is it possible to transfer the ownership of Developers Apps? I can't find any settings that allows me to do so, and this gmail account would be deleted in a few weeks. Thanks!
How can I integrate Dropbox with my App and website?
How can I integrate Dropbox with my CodeIgniter app for uploading and displaying images from NBA picks app and website on the client side? Thanks.
Unable to create to Dropbox App
Hi Team, I am trying to connect to the dropbox app created by Me(Team Admin role in Dropbox Enterprise/Business account), after configuring the connector in AEM DAM with correct client_id and secret I am always getting below error (Only set Individual scope): This app has been blocked for your team. Go to the admin console…
Error in search... options: expected array, got string
I am trying to use search to find any file with txt extension inside a particular path. I get the error: "Error in call to API function "files/search_v2": options: expected array, got string". What am I doing wrong here: $options = array( "filename_only" => true, "max_results" => 1, "file_status" => "active", "path" =>…
Download ANY file in folder
To download a file I need a full path. What if I don't know the name of the file? How would I list that path then to grab any txt file? "path": "/Homework/math/Prime_Numbers.txt"
Adding scope to dropbox app not getting approved
Hi, I'm trying to add a couple of scopes e.g. sharing.write to my dropbox app but whenever I make changes it gets put in review since it's a production app and then doesn't get approved so the scopes don't get updated. I really need these permission updates otherwise my integration won't work. Would appreciate some advice…
How can I get files.metadata.read permission?
I`m writing some code in order to parse my dropbox folders and files but in task.Wait(); line I have error: BadInputException: Error in call to API function "files/list_folder": Your app is not permitted to access this endpoint because it does not have the required scope 'files.metadata.read'. The owner of the app can…
list_folder results different from this morning
when performing an api call files_list_folder with the path /Apps/YPDB2023 up till this morning it would return the subfolder name and a list of all the files - but now I just get the subfolder name and a "has more" = true and a cursor - which I can then use to /files_list_folder/continue - and then I can see the files…
API Redirect URI allow multiple ports on localhost
Hello, I am developing an application that uses the Dropbox API. I would like the application to choose a port that is currently open on the device and based on that create User Authorization link for user to authorize this application. I have not found the way whether/how it can be achieved because Redirect URIs seem like…
Is there a way to get URLs for thumbnails of photos in a shared folder, to display the images?
When I have the share url for a folder, and a user who has connected their Dropbox accopunt by OAuth, is it possible to get URLs for images in a folder, so that I can display the thumbnails in my app, without having to download every thumbnail? I would like to instead use <img> tags, and point to the thumbnail URL in the…
UploadWriteFailed(reason=WriteError('conflict', WriteConflictError('folder', None)
I have a very strange problem. Everything has worked well until this Wednesday. My scripts uploaded files correctly to the dropbox and everything was fine. Suddenly without any change in my python API software the file upload stopped to work. I have created a new dropbox folder /test that is empty. I try to upload a file…
Api now returning path not found
I am using the API: https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_metadata With a body of {"path":"FILENAME","include_media_info":false,"include_deleted":false,"include_has_explicit_shared_members":false} I am getting a 409 response that looks like this:{ "error_summary": "path/not_found/..", "error": { ".tag": "path", "path": {…
dbx.filesListFolder and dbx.sharingGetSharedLinkMetadata no longer return file path
Hello, I have built an application that integrates with Dropbox using the nodejs SDK. It has been working fine for the past few months but has just stopped working overnight The reason seems to be that the filesListFolder and sharingGetSharedLinkMetadata APIs no longer return the path_lower or path_display properties. I…
Upload session append v2 error "Too_large"
Hello, I split my file with 60MB size. But I get this error "Too_large"
What's the correct way to handle expired access token
Hello, after user authenticates via OAuth2 I request refresh token, which I store on user's mobile device. Now to perform various actions (upload/download) from the user's Dropbox storage, I build: DbxClientV2(config, credentials) As I was reading this…
Building filtered notification system (without webhooks) using filesListFolderContinue
I'm a dev building out an email notification system for a client. Initially, the intent was to use webhooks but 1) I didn't care to store a cursor for every single user 2) to reduce costs, I didn't want to have an API set up that would be constantly pinged by Dropbox on every single update Currently, I'm storing a cursor…
Docs not loading for Customers
Hi We are having issues with Customers not being able to load docs. Initially we thought it was a token issue in the database. However it looks as though it is the number of calls being made - 2023-09-29T06:16:04:: [xxxxxxxxxxxxx] System. Aggregate Exception: One or more errors occurred. ---> Dropbox. Api. Rate Limit…
To use properties/update, am I required to first do properties/add first?
In order to use properties/update, am I required to first do properties/add on a file? Reading your description for the "update", it seems it should "Add, update or remove properties associated" with the file. But when when I try to use "update" on new file, it doest not work - it only works for a file for which I had…
Dropbox api. not worked foreach (var item in list.Entries.Where(i => i.IsFolder))
I want to use the dropbox api. I use the code from this page - https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/dotnet#tutorial . But in my Visual.Studio throws an error - CS1061 "IList<Metadata>" does not contain a definition of "Where", and it was not possible to find an available "Where" extension method that accepts…
How to retrieve shared_folder_id of a folder, which inherited access of it's parent?
Hello ppl. I have an issue retrieving shared_folder_id of a sub folders created via /2/files/create_folder_batch endpoint. My structure: RootFolder -> FlowFolder -> ProjectFolder -> SubFolder1 ; SubFolder2 ; SubFolder3 An access to FlowFolder is given to two teams - Team1 & Team 2 For each project I'm creating sub folder…

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