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limeygent
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6 years ago

HTTP API Throttling?

Hi, I am using the http API to upload files into my account, however >50% of them fail and I suspect it is because I can have up to 20 parallel processes trying to upload in a window of about 5 secon...
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limeygent
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Thanks Greg.

I'm just now learning Dropbox's API. What are the endpoints for batch upload? Is it the upload_session EP? If there are some code samples, that would be great. Thanks.

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

In order to use the batch upload finish endpoint, you do need to use upload sessions. The relevant endpoints are:

I don't believe we have a sample for using upload sessions with /2/files/upload_session/finish_batch, but there are some examples of just using upload sessions (with some of the SDKs) here, which should be a good starting point for the logic:

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