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Creating a Share Link Destroys Another Share Link
Hi. I hope you can help me! I have an Integromat.com scenario involving the Dropbox "Create/Update a Share Link" module. It works great, in and of itself. Using information from Monday.com, it creates an "Invoice" PDF file in Docupilot, uploads this file to Dropbox, creates a Dropbox share link for this file, and…
I want to upload files to Dropbox Business using the Dropbox API
# Summary I used the "/2/files/upload" endpoint of the Dropbox API. However, the file is uploaded to your personal folder. I want to upload files to the team folder using the API. # Tried I found the following questions.…
filesListFolderLongpoll fires changes: without changes within the folder
I have a folder and I get a cursor for it and call filesListFolderLongpoll... If I go to the parent folder of the folder I'm polling and add a file to it, the longpoll returns for the child folder with `changes:true` (but nothing within the folder I'm actually polling has changed). When I call filesListFolderContinue with…
Python API - Getting image EXIF data
Hi, I've been trying to get the EXIF data from images, mainly I'm after the image orientation. I can do it by using the files_download_to_file command and using python to get the EXIF data out later, but I'd rather use the files_download command. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Rotating App Key and App Secret - Can you do this without deleting the app?
Hi folks, I've created a DropBox app with a App Key and App Secret. My question is, is there a way to update the Key or the Secret? What if this information gets compromised or we have a policy of switching keys out after a year? Is it possible to do this without deleting and creating a new app (which would then also have…
How to store secret_id in Java desktop app
Hello, As I want to deploy the next version of my Java desktop app with the integration of the Dropbox API so that users can have access to their dropbox folder within the program. For this, I will need to have my dropbox app client_id and secret_id in my Java code somewhere. What are the recommendations and risks when…
Dropbox Chooser link error
Hi, I use dropbox Chooser on my site, the user inserts links to images from Chooser and sometimes these links return 403 code. What can this be related to. Example link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/1/view/0bh390k3ngjcm4u/Pre-Media/Clipping/PicUp%20Media/2020/5/5-30/6181607IN1.psd
Get access token with C#
I'm making xamarin forms app that must save sqlite database in user dropbox account. I have created the required app to connect my xamarin forms app to dropbox, but i am looking for the C# code to get the access token for login. I have tried these instructions…
The token generated here is short-lived, so it will expire 4 hours after generation.
Hello, Yasterday i generate a API key, for my project and today i see not worcking. After i ceck where is problem i see api kei is not avaible, is avaible only for 4 hours. Any sugestion for can generate a api key what not expire to quiqly? Thancks
Old datastore api data
This might be a longshot, but I found out that I have some data in the old datastore API that may be useful to have - is there any way to export the data (or would it be gone by now)? I still see the app in my connected apps, and found some posts suggesting it was possible to get a CSV of the data. Thanks.
What is the format of the file downloaded via API?
I download the file through Dropbox API at the server side of my app in the following manner: // setting variable for buffering let fileBuffered = ''; // authentication const dropbox = dropboxV2Api.authenticate({ token: process.env.DEV_DROPBOX_SECRET_KEY }); // configuring parameters const params = Object.freeze({…
force_reauthentication from android sdk
how to do force_reauthentication from android sdk is this option available for sdk , as the same option is avalable for Oauth2 api.
longpoll workflow / flowchart / advice how to do it right
Hello Dropbox API team, I built an app that loads and saves information from a single text file in Dropbox. That app could be used from several devices, mobile and desktop, and therefore has to detect changes in Dropbox and update the app state as well as pushing changes to the dropbox file. My research indicates that…
Copy from one app > folder to another app > folder
Hi, I was using a developers apps (https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps) account (Status: developer, Permission type: App folder) to store documents of my clients, somehow I lost that one and created another one with different username and app folder name. My question is: how can I copy the data from previous authorised…
create team folder from a template/ duplicate team folder
hi, is possible use API for creating a team folder from a template or copy/duplicate team folder or convert shared folder to team folder? thanks
Content hash calculation for data block size less then 4MB
Is it necessary to split the file in to block of the 4MB to compute the correct hash? How can I calculate the content hash for the data block size less then 4MB?
Downloading zip files from Dropbox via API returns size zero
Hi, I was trying to download zip files within a folder from my dropbox. For example, there are 7z files named 0.7z, 1.7z, ... 5.7z under folder name 'extra'. I could download the 7z files via API, but the size of each 7z file turned out zero although they are around 11GB each. Other text files under the same folder are…
include_media_info - "This parameter will no longer have an effect starting December 2, 2019"
Hello my friends, can we please discuss that topic? Right now I'm unable to retrieve the Date Taken, Longitude or Latitude for my Photos. It seems like Dropbox removed that possibility and I didn't notice that until now. My App isn't woking anymore because of this. I already opened a github issue for the java client and am…
dropbox isn't sending webhooks
what i tried the below code is my webhook endpoint - it responds to the validation request - and it generates and stores a timestamp into a file called "GTest.txt" each time a request is sent to this function/corresponding route public function webhook_endpoint() { $report_object = new report; $result = "";…
insufficient_permissions error in paper doc api
Hi, I am retreiving a list of docs using docs/list api. Then Im using the doc id to download and get folder info with docs/download and docs/get_folder_info apis respectively. All the doc ids from the list gives me result for download and folder info except one. Any doc api I call with this doc id gives me below error. {…
Re: Upload PDF files/proper encoding
I am having the same problem. I am also trying to upload a pdf that has editable fields, but I also tested it with a blank pdf and found it also would not work. below is a copy of my code. (very similar to the original post) files = os.listdir(os.getcwd()) for f in files: if f.endswith('.pdf'): #try: with open(f, 'rb') as…
Uploads to a contact form then stored in dropbpx
Im creating a new contact form for a client where they will be getting leads to upload videos of work needing doing. I want to store the uploads in dropbox. How / where do i look for an API or equivalent that will allow me to do this?
file added in dropbox but not getting in my events
file added in dropbox but not getting in my events. I have created /added files in my dropbox, but not getting events for these created/added file in the response of below api. https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/team_log/get_events Getting events for folder created, shared and also for file shared.
Dropbox API to create a file, write in it via stream and then close the file.
Hi, I am from Softaculous Ltd. I already have an open issue but here I'm opening a new one which is regarding a different issue. I have a query regarding Dropbox. We want our users to upload their backups (which will be .tar.gz file) on Dropbox. Now what we want is that we can create an empty file on Dropbox, add the…
Error 429 returned when syncing via Devonthink
Hello, I'm syncing my Devonthink databases via Dropbox. I had some issues so I tried removing the old sync and creating a new sync store. When syncing my second database, I got an error in Devonthink "dropbox.com 429". I know that Devonthink uses the Dropbox API to sync instead of the local folder. Can you please help?…
My Dropbox API connection stopped responding to my apps hosted on Multiple Servers
For couple of days we found that our dropbox API connection (dropbox app with folder access) stopped working with below error generated: System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: An error occurred while sending the request. ---> System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server --->…
Photo to folder automation
Hi guys, Iam building a web shop and iam faced with a challenge. Digitization of my product, meaning I take a picture of the product, I would need it saved on dropbox automatically and get an url that I could use in the shop. Next to that I would need to have access to all url s at once (bulk) so I could match product…
is the files/list_folder endpoint only available with token not with the key/secret pair?
i want to make an app that has unwavering access to a dropbox folder but it seems it only can use "files/list_folder" with an quick to expire token.
Reg. How to escape captcha check in test accounts
Hi Team, We are having issues in our automation tests where when login into DropBox captcha comes. We need to escape this and make sure the captcha screen is not coming. Is there a way to disable the same? Appreciate your help.
162.125.8.8 ping
i have vps on go daddy and i cant ping 162.125.8.8 what should i do ?

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