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sjyuenger
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Access to file meta data on drop box

I have an application that needs to be able to walk through all the files on dropbox to gather the file meta data  related to the files. I currently accomplish this in Python by walking down the dr...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    3 years ago

    Hi sjyuenger,

    This forum targets Dropbox specific things (in this forums part - things related to Dropbox API/SDK). You rather need a Python tutorial and suitable Python package like 'file-metadata' for instance. 😉

    Good luck.

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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

sjyuenger Здравко is correct, you can interact with the Dropbox folder on the local filesystem normally. And this section of the forum is for use of the Dropbox API though, not local filesystems, so I'm afraid I can't offer help with that.

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