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Know uploaded by user of a file and folder
Hi, I am developing an application where I need to know the user who uploaded particular file. I checked that dropbox UI has that information available and it fetches it from
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Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThat endpoint is not part of the public API, so third party apps will not be able to use it. Instead, you can check the sharing_info.modified_by field for a FileMetadata, e.g., as returned by /2/files/get_metadata or /2/files/list_folder[/continue]. You can get the account information for that account using the account ID from that field by calling /2/users/get_account (or /2/users/get_account_batch).
Thanks for replying.
We definitely explored sharing_info.modified_by field but it points to the user who last modified the file/folder. But we are looking for the user who first created/uploaded the file. For the files where collaboration is happening, sharing_info.modified_by and the user who created/uploaded the file can easily differ.
Is there any public API which provides us information to know which user has first created/uploaded the file/folder?
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