You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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How to restrict an app to only have read access to its app folder
I'm working on an app that only needs read access to its app folder, however I only seem to have the choice of read/write access to an app folder or the whole dropbox account. How can I restrict the...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffI just wanted to follow up on this to let you know that we've released "scopes" functionality on the Dropbox API, which you can use to configure an app or access token to only a limited set of functionality, such as the ability to read but not write files.
You can find more information about the release in our blog post here:
https://dropbox.tech/developers/now-available--scoped-apps-and-enhanced-permissions
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