Greg-DB Dropbox Community Moderator

1. The Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system, but we don't have any specific numbers documented, so I can't say off hand if you would or wouldn't hit the limits. Also note that not all 429s and 503s indicate explicit rate limiting, but in any case that you get a 429 or 503 the best practice is to retry the request,…

The version of the file you're trying to download is from 2017-04-17. Note that Dropbox only retains old versions of files for a limited amount of time, depending on the account type. This error is indicating that this version is no longer available. By the way, I removed it from your post, but for the sake of security,…

@"kilck" Can you elaborate on exactly what doesn't seem to be currently working and how? I just tried your sample for your first post and it's working for me. Thanks in advance! 

Dropbox offers a "shared link" feature which enables you to share files or folders via a link. You can create shared links via the API using /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings. Note that these shared links themselves do contain a random token specific to the shared link, but this is not the "file ID". If you have…

Thanks for writing this up! We'll check on that to see if it's not working properly. You should be able make this work using the 'Dropbox-API-Path-Root' header though: Dropbox-API-Path-Root: {".tag": "namespace_id", "namespace_id": "<namespace_id>"} And then use the path like: path: /app_name/path/to/file.pdf,

Thanks for the report! This one should be fixed now as well. Please try again and let me know.

The API doesn't offer a way to disable comments, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

Thanks! I believe we have enough information, but I'll let you know if we need anything else.

To remove a member from a shared folder, you should use the /2/sharing/remove_folder_member endpoint (or respective SDK method, if you're using an SDK): https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-remove_folder_member

Thanks for the report! We're looking into it. As a workaround, please try setting an unlimited timeout when constructing your Dropbox client, like this: dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN, timeout=None) Please let me know if that does or doesn't help.

@"JonnyO" Apologies, I'm afraid I don't quite follow. Is there something that still isn't working? If please let us know exactly how we can reproduce the issue so we can investigate. Thanks!

Thanks for the report! We're looking into it. By the way, I redacted it from your post, but for the sake of security, you should disable that access token. You can do so by revoking access to the app entirely, if the access token is for your account, here: https://www.dropbox.com/account/connected_apps Or, you can disable…

I've sent this along as a feature request, but to be clear, I can't promise if or when this might be implemented. I'm currently not aware of any plans to add this.

Webhooks would help by letting you know that something has changed, but they doesn't offer any specific information. You would still need to call /2/files/list_folder[/continue] to get the actual information.

@"JonnyO" Can you share the details for what's currently not working for you? Thanks in advance! 

Thanks for the report! We're looking into it.

I just dug up this old post where I wrote an example of using MemberSelector and AddMember to specify a member to add via an email address: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-Support-Feedback/How-we-share-folder-and-file-via-dropbox-api/m-p/194299/highlight/true#M8768 It also shows how to check the shared folder job,…

We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly. Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.

We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly. Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.

We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly. Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.

We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly. Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.

We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly. Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.

Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this exactly with the Dropbox API, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. The closest thing would be to process all of the entries from /2/files/list_folder[/continue] with path="" and recursive=true, and keep track of the server_modified values manually, but that would be more…

The file ID isn't included in DeletedMetadata, so you should make sure to store the previous metadata, and check the file ID of the file that was previously at that path specified by the DeletedMetadata.

No, the Dropbox API doesn't support that grant type, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

Thanks for the report! We're looking into it.

Thanks for the report! We'll check on this and follow up here.

Thanks for the report! We'll check on this and follow up here.

Thanks for the report! We'll check on this and follow up here.

No, there isn't an option for controlling this (either for accessing the link initially, or opening it after the fact), but I'll pass this along as a feature request.