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How to get all the files and folders of a business account ?
I am trying to find the possible ways to get all the 1) Personal files and folder 2) team folder and files 3) Anything shared with the user. Basically a complete snapshot of what the particular user ...
It sounds like for what you're trying to do, the basic outline would look like this:
- Call /2/team/members/list[/continue] or /2/team/members/get_info to get the team member's information, such as their member ID, if you don't already have it.
- Call /2/users/get_current_account with Dropbox-API-Select-User containing the member ID to get the member's root info, i.e., both their root namespace ID and their home namespace ID. (This will be a "TeamRootInfo" type if the user is part of a team using the team space configuration.)
- Call /2/files/list_folder[/continue] with path="" and recursive=true to get the full file/folder listing for the member using both Dropbox-API-Select-User containing the member ID and Dropbox-API-Path-Root containing the "home" mode as documented in the Namespace Guide (or just omit it, since this is the default). Note that this will include anything mounted inside the member's Dropbox, e.g., shared folders. Be sure to continue paging through using /2/files/list_folder/continue when has_more=true as documented for /2/files/list_folder.
- Repeat the above, but using Dropbox-API-Path-Root with the "root" mode and supply the "root_namespace_id". This will give the contents of the team space.
Thanks Greg.
It is still confusing. Let me re-iterate my problem.
I have an Admin token and I would like to see all the files that user has access to ( Private, team and shared). Accoding to the team space concept, in order to do that, I need to first find out all the name space ids and make calls (list/list_folder) for each?
Or is there a way, that I can make single (list_folder/continue) call as described in the documentation 'Dropbox-API-Select-User' ?
If there is a way, what combination of headers( Dropbox-API-Select-User andDropbox-API-Path-Root) I should use?
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffIt sounds like for what you're trying to do, the basic outline would look like this:
- Call /2/team/members/list[/continue] or /2/team/members/get_info to get the team member's information, such as their member ID, if you don't already have it.
- Call /2/users/get_current_account with Dropbox-API-Select-User containing the member ID to get the member's root info, i.e., both their root namespace ID and their home namespace ID. (This will be a "TeamRootInfo" type if the user is part of a team using the team space configuration.)
- Call /2/files/list_folder[/continue] with path="" and recursive=true to get the full file/folder listing for the member using both Dropbox-API-Select-User containing the member ID and Dropbox-API-Path-Root containing the "home" mode as documented in the Namespace Guide (or just omit it, since this is the default). Note that this will include anything mounted inside the member's Dropbox, e.g., shared folders. Be sure to continue paging through using /2/files/list_folder/continue when has_more=true as documented for /2/files/list_folder.
- Repeat the above, but using Dropbox-API-Path-Root with the "root" mode and supply the "root_namespace_id". This will give the contents of the team space.
Thank you!
This works perfect! From my testing, I notice is that, the last item itself gives me everything. Step3 looks redundant.
Only difference between both the methods is how path_lower returned for 'Private' and 'Shared' items and which makes sense based on what set as root.
If anyone else looking for the same, final snippet of what I used for finding all the 'Private', 'Shared' and 'Team' content of what each user has access to with in the business account.
path = {".tag": "root","root":"namespace_id of team_folder"}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer " + self.access_token,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Dropbox-API-Path-Root": json.dumps(path),
"Dropbox-API-Select-User": "dbmid:....."
}
data = {
"path": "",
"recursive": True
}
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