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We are running into these error codes when using the upload APIs to upload files from our application. It happens about 3 or 4 times a day for this integration and we run every 15 minutes. Any suggestions on how to mitigate these errors? Am also sometimes seeing this error too: (409) - Error message received from Http…
Qlik Sense Cloud Business Authentication Code
Hi Qlik sense cloud business -https://www.qlik.com/es-es/products/qlik-sense/qlik-sense-cloud is asking me a authentication code so I can create a conection and get info from dropbox.…
Get shared links of all files in App folder
Hello. I'm using Dropbox Api for .NET. I would like to list all files together with their shared links. Here's my current code: var listFolderResult = await _dropboxClient.Files.ListFolderAsync(String.Empty, recursive: true); var files = listFolderResult.Entries.Where(x => x.IsFile).Select(x => x.AsFile); foreach (var file…
How do I resolve a 'ReferenceError: document is not defined at document.querySelector'?
I am working through the Dropbox Api tutorial on scrimba (https://scrimba.com/playlist/pnyeEhr) and ( https://scrimba.com/g/gdropbox). I am on the Render Files section. After coding the updateFiles method I am getting a ReferenceError. This may be because I had to change the top lines of code from: /*import { Dropbox }…
Dropbox API Error when downloading image to raspi
Hi guys, im a total noob in this kind of topic. I got an error messages when i try to download an image from my dropbox with api key. This is the code: import dropbox dbx = dropbox.Dropbox("orHc3wTGXpAAAAAAAAAAftTm4_Z......") dropboxPath = "/" filename='picked_image1981016614414776853.jpg' dbx.files_download_to_file("Copy…
ApiException`1: path/conflict/folder/ error on fresh installation of SimpleTest
Was having some issues with Dropbox, so decided to go back to basics, and found even SimpleTest wasn't working, so I deleted and recloned, changed only the apikey in SimpleTest, and this time I managed to get the app authoristion screen to come up (wasn't getting that far before), so all appeared to be working now... until…
Dropbox sign in page shown in SFSafariViewController is hanging
Hi - I am using the Dropbox HTTP API v2 with SFSafariViewController on iOS to show the Dropbox Sign In page to authorize the user and obtain a token. This is working on most iOS devices. However, on one iPad Pro running v12.1.4 of iOS, after credentials are entered on the sign in page and the sign-in button is tapped, the…
list orderby api
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder wheres the orderby parameter to sort the results ?!!!
Appending Dropbox file selector to desktop app
Hi, everyone! I'm trying to append Dropbox file selector to my company's desktop app. Is it possible? Thank you!
iOS Read and Write CSV file which upload to Dropbox
How can i read and write the data into a CSV file which i uploaded to dropbox?
For list_folder, are folders always returned before files?
EDIT: I've played around a little more and it appears that not all folders are returned before files are returned. Is there any way to achieve this functionality? Or alternatively, is it possible to fetch only folders, and only files? It appears that items are fetched from the database in order of creation_date, is that…
axios downloaded an mp3 file from dropbox api is empty, 0 bytes in react native
getmedia(medianame) { console.log(medianame); path1 = RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath + '/' + medianame; console.log(path1); axios({ method: 'POST', url: 'https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download', headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer JxxxxxxxxxxC7JnnYdLgKrxxyxyxyxyxyyxyxyxeeee', 'Dropbox-API-Arg': '{ "path": "/Apps/Myapp/+…
Dropbox API upload
var file = new File([data], filename, { type: "type/plain", }); var ACCESS_TOKEN = access token; xhr.open('POST', 'https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload', true); xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Bearer ' + ACCESS_TOKEN); xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/octet-stream');…
How can I get public URLs for all files within a folder?
Hi, I use Dropbox to manage a photo gallery. Co-workers can change photos within the folder and I can show them on our website. Right now, I proxy the request to get the file but that's a lot of calls and files are heavy. Instead, I would like to embed to use the Dropbox URL directly to show photos, like: <img…
Loading URL for login is failed in android webview
Hello. Actually, our device doesn't have a browser. so I used android webview for OAuth login. Sometimes loading login page was failed. The blank page was displayed. Do you have any ideas to solve this problem? Below is the chromium log.Device android version : Android 4.4.2 (KitKat)LogI/chromium: [INFO:CONSOLE(0)]…
Dropbox Javascript SDK + Auth0 access token gives invalid_access_token error
Oh my, let me begin: What I have working: * Auth0 application created and connected to dropbox. The 'Try' option successfully gives me access to my app folder on a user's dropbox account. Great * I have setup my Dropbox App on my dropbox developer site and it worked previously to create folders, upload files, and read from…
Dropbox API V2 Silent Upload Death [Java] [Android]
I'm integrating the dropbox API in a college project in which I'm required to upload text files and download them (Which I have done with success) and I'm also required to upload and download photos. While trying to upload photos, I use the same exact logic for the text files and when I reach the line:…
Syncing property visibility
there is any way from programming to realize that the file still needs to be synced? Like a file property? In other words how to realize from programming that the Dropbox icon is blue and not green?
Why is "assets" field an array in v2 events API?
Hi There, We are using v2 version of events api and I want to understand why the "assets" field is an array? Under what circumstances can it return more than one values and what are these values? Example , I get below for file upload event: "assets": [ { ".tag": "file", "path": { "contextual":…
Downloading or uploading files into dropbox using python
python script to download and upload a file to the dropbox.
Getting error,The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS,while uploading file using save_url
Hi I am getting following error while i upload file using save_url endpoint. The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel. I have a function which calls save_url for each files in array. I ran the same function with 10 items in array, which result into some success and some failure. This is not…
CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin
Hey guys, so i have this angular script to pull in a json file I'm storing in Dropbox. my current issue is that I get an Access-Control-Allow-Origin error every time. I'm not really sure how to fix it... <script type="text/javascript"> var app = angular.module("mig-usedgear", []) app.controller("myCtrl", function($scope,…
Saving Direct File link to my Databse
Hello Dropbox :D I was wondering about a specific point. In my databse schema I have a table describing documents in my application. one of the fields specify the url to that docuemnt as I have the physical files stored in Firebase Storage and I have a field pointing the url on that storage. so my question is can i do the…
How can I move huge files through the Dropbox API from Google Cloud?
hello and sorry if this is not the right place to post this. so i have a huge quantities of file on google cloud that i want to move completly to dropbox, a coworker told me that i can do it via the dropboxbusiness api but i can't find how to. can i get some help? edit: forgot to mension i'm using dropbox business. edit2:…
Pulling changes through API
Is it possible to use the API to look at all the changes made from all users? We're doing certification where we need to "log" changes made within the files and folders. Is there some sort of syslog or even in the API can you pull all changes made, including new users, changes to administration rights, etc etc. Thanks,
Dropbox API - files/list_folder : request body: could not decode input as JSON
I have a windows app that creates an HTTP request. When I use apis that don't have arguments, everything works fine, but when I use one that needs arguments in the body like the files/list_folder, I can never get it to work. I'm definitely putting json in there, but for some reason it doesn't recognize. I've tried it as a…
links for multiple files in a shared folder
Is there a way to link to specfic files within a shared folder without creating links for each individual file? I have an images folder which I created a shared link that contains multiple (1000+) files. If I want to build a url link to an individual file within the shared folder it seems like I should be able to add the…
get_metadata endpoint cannot find valid namespace IDs
I am currently iterating over a list of all namespace IDs from a given teamroom. When i supply these namespace IDs to the files/list_folder endpoint, I recieve a valid response of all files found within that namespace, so the namespace ID is valid. However when i supply the same namespace ID to the files/get_metadata…
OAuth 2.0 for native apps
Hi, How a native app (a desktop application) can implement and use the Authorization flow without having to know/use the app's secret? Quoting from here: "The current industry best practice is to use the Authorization Flow while omitting the client secret, and to use an external user agent to complete the flow." The…
API limits on RPC endpoints
As per the Dropbox API doc, there limits to the API calls, but Dropbox does not wish to disclose any info on limitations. I understand that there might be daily/monthly quota on upload/download APIs, but what are the limitations on RPC endpoints? The reason I ask this is because, I will be doing a complete scan of pretty…

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