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Shahaf L.
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9 years ago

How to filter a folder by File Format using SwiftyDropbox?

Hi :) I’m working on an app that deals with text files and I want to present a list of files in a folder, but only files with a specific format. For example, only .txt or .md files. Is it possibl...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

The API itself doesn't offer filtering like that, so you'll have to use listFolder and do the filtering client-side, based on the extension in the metadata.

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