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not_oppenheimer
6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Dropbox API search vs. recursive list_folder with filtered results
I'm trying to utilize the API to scan my directories for .XLS files and read them. I've attempted this in two ways: using '/search' url = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search"
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- 6 years ago
The results returned by the /2/files/search endpoint are not technically exhaustive. For search queries that have a very large number results, all of them may not be returned. Specifically, there is a max value limit of 9,999 for the 'start' parameter, so if there are more than 10,000 matches, you won't be able to retrieve everything.
For use cases where you have that many entries to retrieve, please use /2/files/list_folder[/continue] instead.
If that doesn't seem to be the issue here though, please open an API ticket with details on the missing search results so we can look into it for you.
Greg-DB
6 years agoDropbox Staff
The results returned by the /2/files/search endpoint are not technically exhaustive. For search queries that have a very large number results, all of them may not be returned. Specifically, there is a max value limit of 9,999 for the 'start' parameter, so if there are more than 10,000 matches, you won't be able to retrieve everything.
For use cases where you have that many entries to retrieve, please use /2/files/list_folder[/continue] instead.
If that doesn't seem to be the issue here though, please open an API ticket with details on the missing search results so we can look into it for you.
- not_oppenheimer6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Thanks for your response. You're absolutely correct that I'm butting up against the 9,999 maximum.
Looking through the documentation there seems to be no built-in method to circumvent or increase that limit. I'll have to be more clever on my end it seem.
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