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Zensible
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Notification of File Request Upload

Hi All,    I'm trying to automate a full process of which Dropbox is part. I need to be able to send a file request using the API and then be notified via a webhook or a periodic poll (not by ema...
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    Greg-DB
    4 years ago

    Since you can't look up which file request was the source of any particular new file directly, using a distinct folder per file request is a good solution.

     

    And you can monitor all folders for changes, and see which folder(s) had changes. I reccomend reading through the guides I linked to first for reference. If you want to use Dropbox webhooks, you can find the information for that here. (I don't know if Zapier would supports Dropbox webhooks directly though, so you may need to operate your own code as an intermediary if not.)

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