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Access Shared Folder with API
Hi Team, can any one please help me to get access in shared folder to extract the meta data like subfolder size and file count. I was unable to locate the shared folder through api always it say...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffI see you're trying to access the contents of a folder in your "team space". By default, API calls operate in the "member folder" of the connected account, not the "team space". You can configure API calls to operate in the "team space" instead though. To do so, you'll need to set the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header. You can find information on this in the Team Files Guide. With the Python SDK, you would do so using the with_path_root method.
I have tried with this below code snippet still I am getting error
from json import JSONDecodeError
import requests
import dropbox
from dropbox.exceptions import AuthError, ApiError
# Authenticate your app
access_token = 'My Access Token'
dbx = dropbox.DropboxTeam(access_token)
def get_user_id(email😞
try:
# Get the list of team members
members = dbx.team_members_list()
# Find the user with the specified email
for member in members.members:
if member.profile.email == email:
return member.profile.team_member_id
except AuthError as e:
print('Error authenticating with Dropbox API:', e)
return None
def list_files_in_folder(folder_path😞
try:
# Set the API endpoint URL
# Set the request headers
headers = {
'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Dropbox-API-Select-User': user_id # Replace user_id with the desired user's ID
}
# Set the request parameters
data = {
'path': folder_path,
'recursive': True
}
# Send the request
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)
response_data = response.json()
print(response.text)
# Process the entries in the folder
for entry in response_data['entries']:
print(entry['name']) # Print the name of the file or folder
if entry['.tag'] == 'folder':
# Recursively list files in subfolders
list_files_in_folder(entry['path_display'])
except AuthError as e:
print('Error authenticating with Dropbox API:', e)
except ApiError as e:
print('Error listing folder:', e)
except JSONDecodeError as e:
print('Error decoding JSON response:', e)
# Set the folder path
folder_path = ' ' # Replace with the actual folder path
# Get the user ID for a specific email
user_email = ' User Name' # Replaced with the desired user's email
user_id = get_user_id(user_email)
# List files in the folder for the specific user
list_files_in_folder(folder_path)
Still getting below error
{"error_summary": "path/not_found/.", "error": {".tag": "path", "path": {".tag": "not_found"}}}
{"error_summary": "path/not_found/.", "error": {".tag": "path", "path": {".tag": "not_found"}}}
{"error_summary": "path/not_found/.", "error": {".tag": "path", "path": {".tag": "not_found"}}}
- Greg-DB
rahulj1 Please review my previous message. In order to access the team space, you'll need to set the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header, which can be done in the Python SDK using the with_path_root method. In your latest code, you still don't seem to be using the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header or with_path_root method.
Also, in this latest code I see you've implemented some of your own code for performing the HTTP request to /2/files/list_folder, however that is not necessary as it is provided natively by the official Dropbox SDK, via the files_list_folder method, like you had in your original code.
Here's a very basic example of how you might use with_path_root and files_list_folder with the Dropbox Python SDK.
import dropbox dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN) root_namespace_id = dbx.users_get_current_account().root_info.root_namespace_id path = "" print(dbx.with_path_root(dropbox.common.PathRoot.root(root_namespace_id)).files_list_folder(path))(This is assuming a user-linked access token, more like your original code sample.)
While I am trying with Root path, I am getting below error
BadInputError('8b261218809945cb828cd56a177f8df2', 'Error in call to API function "users/get_current_account": This API function operates on a single Dropbox account, but the OAuth 2 access token you provided is for an entire Dropbox Business team. Since your API app key has team member file access permissions, you can operate on a team member\'s Dropbox by providing the "Dropbox-API-Select-User" HTTP header or "select_user" URL parameter to specify the exact user <https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams>.')- DB-Des
Dropbox Engineer
Hi rahulj1
You are still trying to call a user endpoint using a team token, that's why you are receiving errors.
The following code snippet should help you get the information you are looking for:
import dropbox dbx = dropbox.DropboxTeam("ACCESS_TOKEN").as_user("TEAM_MEMBER_ID") root_namespace_id = dbx.users_get_current_account().root_info.root_namespace_id path = "" print(dbx.with_path_root(dropbox.common.PathRoot.root(root_namespace_id)).files_list_folder(path))In the above code, you can use the team token you have used previously, and call the .as_user() method with the team_member_id, to retrieve the data.
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