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I'm closing this as a duplicate of: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/event-type-file-edit-doesn-t-appear-in-2-team-log-get-events-API/td-p/786763

@"sundares80" Unfortunately I don't have an update on this right now. I'll follow up with the team to see where this is currently.

@"solneve" Please refer to the documentation here for information on how to properly encode these values: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/json-encoding

@"jimbobbles" Here's the current link to the example of using upload sessions in the Java SDK, to replace the broken link you found: https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-java/blob/main/examples/examples/src/main/java/com/dropbox/core/examples/upload_file/UploadFileExample.java#L57 This example shows how to use an upload…

@"awb" Thanks! I'll share this sample with the team as well.

No, Dropbox does not offer a way to programmatically retrieve thumbnails locally without having the user authorize the app to access their content via the Dropbox API.

Dropbox doesn't currently offer any OpenAPI/Swagger specification or backend for the Dropbox API, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

Yes, as Здравко said, if you want to just access the file data locally, you can do so without using the API. If you want to have Dropbox generate thumbnails for you though, you'd need to use the API/OAuth flow. And yes, it looks like there are some formatting issues in that help center article, so I'll ask the team to fix…

@"hhting" Thanks for the context!

As Здравко said, the Dropbox API can be used by any app that can make HTTPS connections, whether that's a desktop app, web app, or something else. For a desktop app, you can interact with the data in the local Dropbox folder, and/or use the Dropbox API as desired. If you want to programmatically find the local Dropbox…

1. Does the response from /2/sharing/list_folders have a 'cursor' set? If so, you need to call back to /2/sharing/list_folders/continue to retrieve more results, and so on with each response from /2/sharing/list_folders/continue as well. Refer to the linked documentation for more information. 2. No, the Dropbox API doesn't…

@"hhting" Thanks for following up. I'll communicate this to the team. Regarding the recursive: false option, you could still use that to list everything, but that would require you to update your code to make separate calls to /2/files/list_folder (and /2/files/list_folder/continue as needed) for each level. Also, you…

Thanks for the feedback!

@"awb" This is still open with engineering, but I don't have an update yet. I'll follow up here once I do.

A 'no_permission' error from /2/files/copy_reference/save means: no_permissionVoid You don't have permission to save the given copy reference. Please make sure this app is same app which created the copy reference and the source user is still linked to the app. You mentioned you're using two different apps, so it sounds…

It looks like you're trying to operate on files inside the "team space". In order to access the team space, you do need to use the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header. It's not possible to access the contents of the team space without using the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header, but there are different ways to use the…

@"Ashley B.15" Thanks, that's helpful. The /2/files/list_folder endpoint should certainly be publicly available so we'll look into this and follow up here once we have an update on this.

A 'route_access_denied' error should indicate that the call failed because the API route the app is trying to use is not publicly available. If it appears you're receiving this error incorrectly though, please reply with the following so we can look into it: * the name and version number of the SDK/library you are using,…

As Здравко said, you can use any language to access the Dropbox API as long as it can make network requests. For reference, Dropbox offers an official SDK for JavaScript, but not PHP. Using an SDK can make integrating with the Dropbox API easier. Use of an SDK for accessing the Dropbox API is optional though.

Thanks for the feedback! For reference for anyone reading, if there are no parameters to send for an RPC endpoint like this, you can omit the request body as long as you also omit the "Content-Type" header (since there is no request body to describe). To illustrate this, here's some examples of working usage of the…

The /2/sharing/update_folder_member endpoint does support the Dropbox-API-Select-Admin header, but only in the "Team Admin" mode, meaning it can "access content of team folders and team spaces but not the team members' home namespaces". So, for example, if that namespace is for a shared folder in the account's home…

The Dropbox API does not currently offer an endpoint directly using the "contacts.read" scope. The "contacts.read" scope exists as a dependency of the "contacts.write" scope (used by /2/contacts/delete_manual_contacts and /2/contacts/delete_manual_contacts_batch). The Dropbox API does not currently offer an endpoint for…

@"mikechiu" If you're still having trouble with /2/sharing/update_folder_member, as Здравко said, please share the details of the /2/sharing/update_folder_member call so we can take a look.

The Dropbox API does not currently offer Dash functionality, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

Thanks for following up. I'm glad to hear you sorted this out. Yes, for reference, the length of Dropbox access tokens is not guaranteed and may change over time.

@"awb" First for reference, note that the post you linked to is old and now somewhat out of date. As Здравко noted, new Dropbox API access tokens do now expire, and access tokens and refresh tokens can also still be explicitly revoked. There are different errors for these cases: 'expired_access_token' indicates the token…

@"JohnStrudwick" The Dropbox API does have a general rate limiting system that applies to all endpoints. Also note though that if there are multiple changes at the same time in the same account or shared folder, you can run in to "lock contention" (which uses the 'too_many_write_operations' tag). That's not explicit rate…

@"qaaperture" The Dropbox API also does not currently support created times for folders, but I'll pass this along as a feature request as well.

We've updated this to support passing in "null".

@"Geniatech" As Здравко noted, that error message does not necessarily appear to related. In any case, we'll look into it. I'll follow up here once I have any news on this.