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Hello Dropbox! I am trying to set up an automated workflow via zapier for our company juniqe.com: i need to invite new folder members as editors via their email, am am trying to do so via a w...
If you know the path or ID for the folder, and the folder is already a shared folder, you can get the shared folder ID by calling /2/files/get_metadata. The shared folder ID will be in the result at folder.sharing_info.shared_folder_id. Using /2/sharing/list_folders[/continue] on the folder's parent also works.
Note that creating a shared link for a folder does not make it a "shared folder". These actually refer to two different types of sharing on Dropbox: "shared links" and "shared folders". Folders will only receive shared folder IDs for the second type of sharing, "shared folders".
It sounds like you may have used /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings to make a shared link for the folder. To share the folder in order to get a shared folder ID, you should use /2/sharing/share_folder.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staffmartinjuniqe That error should just indicate that the 'shared_folder_id' value you supplied in the API call isn't a valid shared folder ID.
Can you double check what's getting sent? Shared folder IDs are just integers, e.g., '12345678'; they are not the same as normal file/folder IDs (which look like 'id:A12bC3-d4E5f6').
You can get the shared folder ID from a number of places on the API, such as /2/files/list_folder[/continue] in FolderMetadata.sharing_info.shared_folder_id, or /2/sharing/list_folders[/continue] or /2/sharing/check_share_job_status in SharedFolderMetadata.shared_folder_id.
gotcha. please just dumb it down for me a nod - so i need to first run a get request to find out the shared folder id to call the webhook i'm trying to call. I have an earlier step in the automatization sharing said folder, but this does not return the shared folder id, but only a share link.
the dropbox contains hundreds of folders, is there a simple way to get to the sharedfolderid of the folder by it's regular id or share link?
- Greg-DB
If you know the path or ID for the folder, and the folder is already a shared folder, you can get the shared folder ID by calling /2/files/get_metadata. The shared folder ID will be in the result at folder.sharing_info.shared_folder_id. Using /2/sharing/list_folders[/continue] on the folder's parent also works.
Note that creating a shared link for a folder does not make it a "shared folder". These actually refer to two different types of sharing on Dropbox: "shared links" and "shared folders". Folders will only receive shared folder IDs for the second type of sharing, "shared folders".
It sounds like you may have used /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings to make a shared link for the folder. To share the folder in order to get a shared folder ID, you should use /2/sharing/share_folder.
OK so i can could https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/share_folder as well and get a response including the shared folder id, this seems to work.
but when trying to call the endpoint https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/add_folder_member afterwards, i am receiving another error
thanks, this now works - really appreciate your help!
i guess i did only create a shared link previously, and calling the share_folder endpoint really was what i needed to get to the right id, the next error was caused by something within Zapier i guess, i couldn't reproduce it after trying to run the whole process with an entirely fresh folder, sharing worked like a charm.
thanks guys!
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