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Search endpoint returning 500 internal server error
This same API has been working solidly for years, but now in the past 2-ish days it has been returning more and more errors.
Sometimes it works for quite a while, but sometimes it keeps erroring fo...
This should be resolved now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks!
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for the report! We're looking into it. I'll follow up here once I have an update on this.
Just in case this information is useful, there are about 50 users every day, using about 10-20k API calls total.
The issue might be worse the more API calls there are, but this is purely a guess and nothing more.
- Greg-DB
Thanks for the information!
- Greg-DB
This should be resolved now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks!
The errors actually "magically" went away about 24+ hours after reporting it.
Can you give any details as to what was wrong and if anything was actually fixed?I'm also wondering if it was caused by the legacy permissions/scopes, which I migrated to the new system, so if this was actually what fixed it, but just rolled out slowly/took a day to apply?
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