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A blank Redirect URI in a mobile app is hanging the app
I am using Dropbox.Api NuGet package in a Xamarin Forms app. Though Xamarin is not supported officially, even after 5+ years of its existance, I could, and many like me, implement it successfully for Android and iOS apps using Xamarin. Your documentation and also as mentioned in several post in this forum I find that…
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Use Dropbox API search results to generate dropbox.com file preview urls
We are creating application to help users find their files/folder in dropbox. For searching we used dropbox API route: https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search_v2 The goal is: based on results generate proper dropbox.com urls to let user visit dropbox site with opened file. The issue is: results do not have namespaces in…
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Dropbox chooser: "Could not communicate with site" in Microsoft edge
We are using the dropbox chooser on our demo website, it is working fine in most browsers expect Microsoft Edge (version 42.17134.1098.0 for example). The only thing that we noticed is a difference in the order of the URL parameters (not sure if this is the problem source): URL with error:…
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Accessing Dropbox subfolders on IFTTT
Is there any way for IFTTT to monitor nested folders (i.e. subfolders) in Dropbox as oppose to top level folders? The google drive IFTTT integration appears to offer this capability, but I can't see you can do this with dropbox.. https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17074i9D5DE9B02BECE904/…
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Random Error 500 when using batchUpload from ObjectiveDropboxOfficial
Hello, I use the ObjectiveDropboxOfficial Framework and often get an error 500 when calling batchUploadFiles. It seems to be completely random for which file the batchUpload fails. I call batchUploadFiles for only one file at a time, because it has the convenience to chunk large files, etc. If it is important: the files to…
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How to Show image of dropbox in asp.net C#
Hi ... I m working with the Dropbox api using C# . i want to display dropbox folder image to asp.net C# web page.How i can do it plz help me guys
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50x errors, /2/files/upload_session/append_v2
Hello! We have new errors when uploading files: [2020-07-15T12:05:24+03:00] ERROR '***' upload have been ended with error, error1: 'Request url 'https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload_session/append_v2' method 'POST' failed, X-Dropbox-Request-Id '17e0bb8995a7480cb3eedfaf5009cfab' response code '502', error:…
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How to get only todo items through API?
Hi, I checked API doc (https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-api-v2-explorer/) and can't see how to get todo items from my documents. I can download each doc (HTML / Markdown) and parse content to find todo list. But on the webstie (top right corner) i have checkbox icon that show me my tasks. How can i get only tasks from all…
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Unknown error on upload
Dear support, I would like to upload files to my Dropbox Application via Qt in c++ but it returns "unknown error" despite the "curl -X POST" equivalent is working like a charm in CLI mode. Do you what is wrong? Here the code in QT Creator I wrote: dropbox.h #ifndef DROPBOX_H #define DROPBOX_H #include <QObject> #include…
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Re: ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:852)
i was looking into why dl.securecusercontent.com urls give SSL error. It seems the domain doesnt have a proper SSL certificate. This is an article i found and the link below is from that article. These are links generated on OSX from the right click or context menu…
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[ULR] ALWAYS returns internal error, code 409
Please help. This used to work (last used about 6 months ago) but now I get "Internal Error" Code 409 when trying to check the status of a batch copy. https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/copy_batch_v2 returns: { ".tag": "async_job_id", "async_job_id":…
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Get video duration from Dropbox Chooser
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out how I can retrieve video duration from Chooser's API after video was selected? In case if this is not possible maybe I can get access token from Dropbox Chooser and then pass it to dropbox-js-sdk and call method FilesGetMetadata ? Any ideas how to do this?
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Authentication for File getContent - https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/cloud_docs/get_content
Hi, While cosumning the api to get the file content ( https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/cloud_docs/get_content). I am facing an error mentioned below: Error in call to API function "cloud_docs/get_content": Invalid authorization value in HTTP header "Authorization": "Bearer <myApp access token>". Expecting "Bearer…
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Team Spaces support for Dropbox Business development account
Hi, I have requested and received a free Dropbox Business Development Account. However it seems it doesn't have support for Team Spaces. Is that right? A call to get_current_account [1] while logged in as the team admin returns (excerpt): ... "account_type": { ".tag": "business" }, "root_info": { ".tag": "user",…
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How to handle temporary files that are created by uploading files?
Sort of new to web dev in general so forgive me if I don't know what to do. The issue is that in my local project repository. Temporary files are being created. I'm not sure if this is an issue to be concerned with? I worry what will happen after deployment and whether this will cause issues down the line. Are we suppose…
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Login Dropbox account in chromium browser returns the Blank URL while generating the Access token
I have developed the WPF project with OAuth for Dropbox. I have faced some difficulties in the Access token generation process recently (It worked fine, a couple of days earlier). I have used the Chromium browser for this process. While login with Dropbox account in chromium browser returns the Blank URL instead of the…
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PHP Codeigniter - Upload file to Dropbox via HTTPS always empty
I'm trying to upload file using Kunnu Dropbox API. It works really well in localhost. But, when I try to upload from live server, it always upload empty file. What am i missing ? Here is the code to upload : $pathToLocalFile = base_url() . "\\public\\dropbox_file\\" . $data['upload_data']['file_name'];$dropBox =…
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Dropbox webhook
Hi Team, We integrated the dropbox API in our application and able to download the file using the dropbox maven SDK once the jot form uploaded the file. Is there any mechanism to add a webhook to dropbox folders so that the dropbox will fire an API call to our application by providing some details of the file that is…
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sharedFolderId
DbxUserSharingRequests.getSharedLinkMetadata("https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b6v0dz1kkkap3s7/AAAAizqELKLxCZx7cXtBvw3La?dl=0"); return { ".tag" : "folder", "url" : "https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b6v0dz1kkkap3s7/AAAAizqELKLxCZx7cXtBvw3La?dl=0", "name" : "Slide Shows", "link_permissions" : { "can_revoke" : true,…
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python upload file OverflowError
I need to upload all the files in a directory through the API, the largest file is about 20 gb, but I keep getting an OverflowError with files larger than 2GB. I'm using the example of this thread (https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-Support-Feedback/python-upload-big-file-example/m-p/166626). But I can't make it work.…
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Sharing folders with write permission using the API (My dropbox App)
Hi, I'm using a business account, I want the ability to create a folder and share it with maximum access to all members of the team And doing so with the API. 2 methods I tried: 1) I tried first to share folder with others (read-only) with the API , but afterwards i can't change the permission. 2) I created a shared folder…
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How to find out if email address is team member?
I want to know if it is possible to check through the (basic) API whether a given email address is a team member or not. My case is the following: I want to let people share files through our own app. When the active user has Dropbox Teams and sharing files externally is turned off, I would like to detect whether a 'Share'…
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Moving of Files not Working
I am moving a file using the endpoint https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/move_v2 which gives me a successful response however the file is not shown in the folder when i go to it.
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Shortcuts created using API do not work
https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/share/shortcuts I tried to create file with `.web` and same content as shortcust json with "url" field - but those files cannot be open either on the web, desktop or mobile clients. Why is that? Is there some trick to make it work?
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Re: How to get a path to a Dropbox file in order to use the files_download function in python?
For some reason, using files_list_folder().entries.path_lower is giving me this error: dropbox.exceptions.ApiError: ApiError('496762b8575c8f262949ace63f24a1fe', ListFolderError('path', LookupError('not_folder', None))) I found that when I tried printing out file list folder, my path_lower is none, is there another way to…
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Download Zip limits
I am curently experimenting with the Download Zip and Download File APIs, but I'm running into issues with the two: 1. Download Zip works well since it preserves the file metadata, but quickly becomes unfeasible due to the limitations since we have many instances of files larger than 4GB or folders that are over 20GB. 2.…
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get_temporary_link with zip files causing Google Chrome warning
Hi Google Chrome (83, Mac) has started giving me a 'Dangerous File' warning whenever trying to download zip files specifically served by the 'get_temporary_link' API call. I have 'Safe Browsing' enabled (set to 'Standard'). Until recently I have experienced no issues using this API method (using it for over 2 years now).…
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Anybody else getting intermittent 500 error responses from Dropbox Paper?
I am using the Dropbox Paper endpoint: https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/paper/docs/download but today, for whatever reason, am getting ~5-10 500 responses (over the course of downloading ~50 documents). This has never happened before, nor do I see any status issue being reported on the Dropbox Status page - Paper is still in…
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files_list_folder encoding issue
I've tried to use the sample code provided in other discussions to no avail. #!/usr/bin/env python import dropbox dbx = dropbox.Dropbox("***TOKEN*GOES*HERE***") myDir = dbx.files_list_folder("") for item in myDir.entries: if isinstance(item, dropbox.files.FileMetadata): name = item.name fileID = item.id fileHash =…
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Is there any api to know whether a file contains restricted content?
Hi, Is there any api to know whether a file contains restricted content before downloading api is hit? Thanks in advance, Bharath