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.
Forum Discussion
/list_folder/get_latest_cursor -> shared_link
Hello, I noticed that for get_latest_cursor you can add a shared_link parameter. If I understand the documentation correctly, this parameter allows you to get the cursor for a file whose name is cont...
maxior1234 wrote:... If I understand the documentation correctly, this parameter allows you to get the cursor for a file whose name is contained in the url. ...
Hi maxior1234,
No, 🙂 You don't understand correctly. Such cursors, received from wherever (including from /2/files/list_folder/get_latest_cursor), target to a folder, not a file!!! They represent current enumeration state. How you "understand" particular single file enumeration (file pointed by a link in your case)? 😉
The "path" here means a subfolder path within a folder tree pointed by a provided link eventually (when your target is not the entire tree, but some subpart). A file can't have a subfolder, as it, by self, is not a folder!
Hope this clarifies matter.
I have an automation that gets information about newly added files to a Google sheet. The current cursor Dropbox is also saved in the sheet. The problem arises when the automation somehow loses its cursor. Then I get the information about the files from the beginning into cursor. I would like to improve it. Is it possible to read from Dropbox cursor from a specific position? For example, in sheet, I have a file name and a link to this file. Can I get a cursor on the basis of this information, thanks to which I will be able to retrieve information about subsequent files?
About Dropbox API Support & Feedback
Find help with the Dropbox API from other developers.
