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OLR_A
7 years agoNew member | Level 2
API V2 Access team folders of bussines plan with Folder/Files operations
i want to acces team folders using application user api for list,create folders, upload and download,etc.. and i'm going crazy. In API Explorer with function "list_folder", only can acces user ho...
- 7 years ago
It sounds like you're using a Business team with the new team space and member folders configuration that some teams have access to.
That being the case, you'll need to specify the team folder specifically when making API calls to access its contents, for example, by supplying the 'Dropbox-API-Path-Root' header. You can find more information on that here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/namespace-guide
The Dropbox API Explorer is built for the older configuration, but we're working on updating the API and SDK support and documentation to support the new one. That's not quite ready yet though, so unfortunately there isn't a good way to use the API Explorer for this right now, but you can run it outside the of Explorer. Apologies for the inconvenience!
Greg-DB
7 years agoDropbox Staff
It sounds like you're using a Business team with the new team space and member folders configuration that some teams have access to.
That being the case, you'll need to specify the team folder specifically when making API calls to access its contents, for example, by supplying the 'Dropbox-API-Path-Root' header. You can find more information on that here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/namespace-guide
The Dropbox API Explorer is built for the older configuration, but we're working on updating the API and SDK support and documentation to support the new one. That's not quite ready yet though, so unfortunately there isn't a good way to use the API Explorer for this right now, but you can run it outside the of Explorer. Apologies for the inconvenience!
- tianhong6 years agoNew member | Level 2
HI Greg,
I have the same problem of accessing team shared folder.
I tried to follow the namespace guide. I am using python. First get namespace ids:
"root_namespace_id": "4345996448", "home_namespace_id": "4770419568",
Then create dbx object with a header:
header = {'Dropbox-API-Path-Root': {".tag": "namespace_id", "namespace_id": "4345996448"}} dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(TOKEN, header)
But when do a
dbx.files_list_folder('')
still showing my user's home dir, not team shared one. If I add 'ns:4345996448' to PATH, it would fail.
Can you help me with it? Thanks.
- Greg-DB6 years agoDropbox Staff
tianhong To set the 'Dropbox-API-Path-Root' header, you should instead use the provided 'Dropbox.with_path_root' method, like this:
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(TOKEN).with_path_root(dropbox.common.PathRoot.namespace_id("1990815600")) dbx.files_list_folder('')
- tianhong6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Thanks Greg! It works.
I am just wondering how to search these kinds of information in the documentation. I tried but failed. I don't think asking questions here is an efficient way, although your help is great.
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