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Get list of files in folders inside shared folders
Hi there,
I am having a lot of trouble getting the contents of shared folders and the content of folders within shared folders.
Firstly, for the shared folder, according to the API I shou...
Hey Greg, this has been resolved.
When setting up a Dropbox API Key for `App Folder` or `Full Access`, you don't have access to the Shared folders until the user manually Adds the folder to their Dropbox account.
The account I was accessing had not done this. Issue resolved now. :)
Thank you very much for your patience and help in trying to get me through this!
Hi Greg,
Using /2/files/list_folder only works if I access this through the shared link of a shared folder, (shared_link parameter with url, path set to empty string), and I still can't get access to the folders within that shared folder using this because they don't have shared links.
The lower_path of the shared folder does not display when I retrieve metadata with files/list_folder, nor with sharing/get_folder_metadata, so I cannot access the shared folders via path, can you tell me if there is a default path for shared folders relative to the root?
I notice both shared folders that I want to access have "is_inside_team_folder": true.
If shared folders are within team folders, does this mean that I cannot access them unless I have a Dropbox Business API app key?
Hey Greg, this has been resolved.
When setting up a Dropbox API Key for `App Folder` or `Full Access`, you don't have access to the Shared folders until the user manually Adds the folder to their Dropbox account.
The account I was accessing had not done this. Issue resolved now. :)
Thank you very much for your patience and help in trying to get me through this!
Finally got this work after an hour. Dropbox API has extremely poor documentation.
Hey havetoregister Greg-DB ,
"Add to Dropbox" works for folders but any idea about shared files ?
Cuz they don't have this feature and while long polling or webhooks, Dropbox doesnt give the details of the file which was shared to the user.
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