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yannick11
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Getting content of folders using Dropbox API in Python not working anymore since last update

There has been an update in Dropbox and also in the API somewhere in the last week. I have a Python script to retrieve the content of a Dropbox folder and it is not working anymore. The call was just...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    2 years ago

    Can you clarify what you mean when you say "it is not working anymore"? For instance, what error or unexpected output do you get?

     

    For reference, regardless of what feature set your team is using exactly, if you're trying to access a "team space", you'd need to get the root namespace ID from users_get_current_account, and use that as the root in with_path_root to access the team space. You can find more information in the Team Files Guide.

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