Greg-DB Dropbox Community Moderator

Unfortunately I don't believe there's any supported way to streamline that, but I'll be sure to pass this along as feedback. 

That's correct, the Dropbox API doesn't currently have a way to create shared folders, but this is an often requested feature, and I'll be sure to count your vote too. We try not to comment on future plans, lest they change, but we do hope to satisfy this request from our developers, though I don't have a particular…

Thanks for the additional details. It sounds like you want to have all instances of your app connect to a single Dropbox account. The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. However, it is technically possible to connect to just one…

The Dropbox Core API can be used to upload files to shared folders just like any other folders. Just supply the path of the shared folder like you would any other. Once files are uploaded to shared folders, they'll be synced to other members normally. Note that the Dropbox API doesn't currently offer a way to share folders…

I posted an answer on your StackOverflow post.

That is the normal scenario, that is, every user goes through the OAuth flow to authorize the app to connect to their own Dropbox account (and not just one static/fixed account). I recommend trying out the web-file-browser sample app included with the PHP SDK to see how the flow works. It will look the same for each user,…

Thanks for elaborating. The end users of your app don't need to enter any app name or anything to identify your app. When a user uses your app, e.g., by browsing to your app's web site, your app has its own app key already, and directs the user through an OAuth flow. This sends them to Dropbox to authorize your app. At…

I'm not sure I understand your question. Can you clarify what you mean by "the smallest number of user's dbx login info"? Dropbox API apps should send users through an OAuth flow to authorize the app to access their account (or not) and receive an access token back. The API app itself should never handle the user's Dropbox…

No, no news on this unfortunately.

Unfortunately the Dropbox API doesn't currently expose thumbnail links (as opposed to /thumbnails returning the thumbnail data itself) but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.

The redirect_uri parameter on /oauth2/token is documented as: Only used to validate that it matches the original /oauth2/authorize , not used to redirect again. I believe that's a security feature of OAuth 2, from the spec here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-4.1.3

That tutorial is referring to the Dropbox Core API that I linked to. What do you have so far and where are you stuck?

This certainly sounds like something that you could accomplish using the Dropbox Core API. We recommend using one of the official SDKs if possible: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core In particular, the best way to get the full list of files in an account is to use /delta:…

Are you using a proxy? The dropins.js file is loaded from the Dropbox servers to support the Saver, but it sounds like your browser wasn't able to access it, perhaps because your proxy blocked it for some reason. First, I would try disabling your proxy to confirm that's the issue. If so, you'll need to troubleshoot why…

The token this tool generates is called an "access token", which is user-specific. Normally, a Dropbox API app is used for a large number of users (not just the developer/owner of the app). That being the case, the normal way to get a token is to send each user through an OAuth flow (as the tool does) and store the token.…

Thanks! That's helpful. I was able to reproduce this issue, and it looks like the 500 error is actually being returned by sharpox.codeplex.com (which is presumably a typo in the code which should be sharpbox.codeplex.com), after dropbox.com redirects there. That being the case, this is something the developer of…

Can you share the specific steps to reproduce this problem so we can look into it? Thanks in advance!

What's the URL for the page you get a 404 on? Can you share the relevant code?

It looks like you also opened a ticket for this, which we replied to asking for some more information. Please feel free to reply there. If you didn't get the reply though, we can also work on this here. The following information would be helpful: * steps to reproduce the problem * a description of what does happen (when…

We've done some additional investigation on this, and to summarize: * Your respective apps/libraries are apparently not properly escaping the URI path, which results in technically invalid HTTP requests. (That is, they contain unescaped spaces in the URI.) * Our web server is somewhat forgiving of these malformed…

If you only need to share those files with them, they don't need to approve your app. If you need them to interact with those shared files in your app specifically, then yes, they would need to approve the app to access their account where they have the shared folder. As far as how they authorize the app, I recommend…

If you register an API app with a different permission (i.e., not app folder) you can use the API to upload files into a folder that you've shared with them.

No, when users link your app to their accounts, they get their own app folders in their own accounts which only lets them interact with their own files that they put in their app folders. The contents of app folders don't sync across different accounts.

The Dropbox API provides an interface that you can use in your app to upload and download files to and from Dropbox, though it doesn't provide any special support for preferences in particular. If you can store and retrieve preferences as files though, that should work fine. You can find the iOS Core SDK here:…

Hi Luke, Rich is correct, I can't make any promise as to if or when this would be possible. We try not to offer timelines in general, since plans can always change anyway, and we wouldn't want to have offered bad guidance if/when they do.

Thanks for the continued feedback everyone! This is something we'd like to offer, but unfortunately there are some significant changes we'd have to make on the backend for this so I can't make any promises.

Hi Rick, the new shared folder API functionality enables API apps to manage shared folders in linked accounts, but it doesn't resolve the incompatibility between app folders (created for apps with the app folder permission), and shared folders themselves.

Thanks for the additional feedback everyone! We always appreciate hearing from developers and users about features they need, especially with the accompanying context like that which has been provided here.

You can use the Dropbox API to programmatically list and download files. We recommend using one of the official SDKs if possible: https://www.dropbox.com/developers If you run in to any issues or have any specific questions, please open a new thread with the specifics:…

That's just the raw data for the image. You can save it directly into a file and use that image file as you would normally.