Greg-DB Dropbox Community Moderator

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  • HTTPS connections can time out, so to download large files, I recommend using "Range Retrieval Requests" to download in pieces. For example, issuing such a request to download the first 1000 bytes of a file using /2/files/download would look like: curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \ --header…
    in Does server close the connection once download a file over 90 minutes? Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • It looks like you're using a third party library. I'm afraid I can't offer support for that, as it's not made by Dropbox. As far as Dropbox itself is concerned, there is no "access token secret" for OAuth 2 access tokens. Dropbox API v2 only supports OAuth 2, and Dropbox API OAuth 2 access tokens only consist of one piece,…
    in DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET not found in OAuth 2 Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • Isso pode acontecer quando o pedido HTTP é mangled e não é reconhecido como uma chamada de API. Uma maneira para isso acontecer é se o token de acesso contém valores inesperados. Certifique-se de que o token de acesso para este usuário é válido e, por exemplo, não contém acidentalmente o espaço em branco principal ou…
    in Upload Error 4xx Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • The error 'too_many_write_operations', indicates that the operation failed due to "lock contention". This isn't explicit rate limiting, but rather an inability to perform multiple state modifications in the same account at the same time. This can vary over time, based on how much activity is occurring in the account. Note…
    in Too many write operations when moving a folder Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • That is a script for building/installing the SDK locally. It's not necessary if you switch to using a packaged version as above.
    in Unable to migrate to API v2 Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • That's correct, the "DBRoulette" example and the dropbox-android-sdk-1.6.3 SDK are for API v1, and should no longer be used. Anyway, these are commands that should be run in a terminal if you want to build the SDK from source. If you don't need to edit the source (you generally shouldn't), I recommend just changing the…
    in Unable to migrate to API v2 Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • That SDK does use API v2, and it is the recommended way to use API v2 from Java. The Android example itself is included with the SDK download. If you've already downloaded the SDK, as it sounds like you have, you already have the Android example. In your case, you mentioned having it…
    in Unable to migrate to API v2 Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • @"mms" No, I don't have an update on this unfortunately. 
    in Objective C Framework Install Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • The API unfortunately doesn't offer write mode options, e.g., to overwrite, for the copy endpoints. I'll pass this along as a feature request.
    in Copy overwrite file api V2 Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • That thread is regarding an older, retired Dropbox iOS SDK. For the current Dropbox Objective-C SDK, please refer to the documentation here for information on background sessions: https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-obj-c#note-about-background-sessions
    in Error when iPhone is with locked screen Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • You can specify a particular time range, and/or a particular member, via the `time` and `account_id` parameters, respectively. You can find more information on those in the documentation: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#team_log-get_events The API v2 Explorer may be helpful for building/testing…
    in How to Implement an exhaustive notification system with API V2 Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • No, Dropbox doesn't offer a way to programmatically upload to file requests, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
    in Upload a file via API to a file request? Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • Dropbox doesn't support explicit wildcards for Chooser domain registration, but we're tracking this as a feature request. For reference though, if you only need subdomains like in your example, you can register just the main domain, e.g., example.com, which would enable use on any subdomain of example.com, e.g.,…
    in Wild Card Support for Subdomain in DropBox Chooser APP Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • The Dropbox API doesn't directly return a few of these pieces of information unfortunately, such as file ID in DeleteMetadata, modified/deleted time in FolderMetadata/DeletedMetadata, or modified_by for FolderMetadata, but I'll pass these along as feature requests. There are some other things you can do though. You can…
    in How to Implement an exhaustive notification system with API V2 Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • In addition to the PhotoWatch sample you already mentioned, we also have some samples on the GitHub page here. Apologies there aren't more! For reference though, for downloading files, you would use the download methods, and for listening for changes, you would use listFolderLongpoll. If you run in to any issues with…
    in Dropbox API2 Swift Examples Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • Apologies for the trouble. This should be fixed now.
    in BUG - The remote server returned an error: (460) Restricted. Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • [Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48846545/dropbox-password-control-api ] The Dropbox API doesn't expose this unfortunately, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
    in 2FA and Password Control API Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • You will get a different cursor each time, but the cursor itself doesn't tell you about the contents anyway. You should refer to the 'entries' list in the response to see what, if anything, changed under that folder.
    in Recently modified Direcories or files Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • @"rahlpanchal" Pash237 shared an example of using the getTemporaryLink method. Is that not what you're looking for? If not, please feel free to open a new thread with the details of your question.
    in Best way to get a file's URL Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • No, I don't have an update on this unfortunately. I'll bring it up with the team again.
    in Saver timeout on some files, no intermediate progress Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • @"Jan_Zeman" Thanks for the detailed write up! I can't speak on behalf of other users or developers, but I'll make sure this post is brought to the right people.
    in Mute option not working for API v2 write REST call Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • Thanks! Server issues can happen occasionally, so it may be helpful to add some automatic retries for failures like this.
    in Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <.Path Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • The API doesn't offer a way to get the percent progress for these jobs, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
    in Checking the Percent of File being uploaded via /save_url/ Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • If you don't have a shared link and want to instead download the file directly from the connected account, you can use the download methods.
    in How to get shared link using Objective-C Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • The Dropbox API does offer the ability to download files. Dropbox doesn't have an API v2 SDK for Ruby in particular, but you can use the HTTPS endpoints directly. For example, to download a file, you would use /2/files/download: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-download Or, you can…
    in Download Files From Dropbox Using Ruby Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • What kind of "change" for the folder are you looking for exactly? By storing and re-using the latest cursor you received, you can get any/all changes in the folder. If you want to receive changes in subfolders too, set recursive=true.
    in Recently modified Direcories or files Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • There's no limit on the cursor length, as there's no limit on the number of files/folders that can be in an cursor. There isn't an option for compressing it, and the cursor does contain information that the API, so it's not possible to just send up a hash.
    in Cursor max size Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • @"Pash237" In the Dropbox API v2 Objective-C SDK, you would use the DBFILESUserAuthRoutes -getTemporaryLink: method: https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-obj-c/api-docs/latest/Classes/DBFILESUserAuthRoutes.html#/c:objc(cs)DBFILESUserAuthRoutes(im)getTemporaryLink: That's an RPC-style method, so it would be used the same…
    in Best way to get a file's URL Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • @"Jan_Zeman" Thanks for the feedback. I know the response on this issue has not been satisfactory, and we sincerely appreciate you following up on it and letting us know. This issue is still open directly with the team, and I'm adding your feedback to it. For reference though, this issue would not be trivial to fix, and…
    in Mute option not working for API v2 write REST call Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
  • The leading slash is required when identifying non-root paths, so "/images" would be the correct format. The not_found error indicates that there is nothing at the specified path in the connected account. That being the case, make sure that: - you're using an access token for the account you mean to interact with. - you're…
    in Error Listing Contents of a folder Comment by Greg-DB February 2018
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