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Python SDK: Can one identify email address for a specific file upload?
I have an app which is restricted to a single folder which polls for received uploads, downloads the file, processes it and then uploads the result. At this point I need to inform the original uploa...
lymanhurd Thanks for following up and clarifying. Dropbox does not offer an API for retrieving the specific details for file request submissions like that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. That being the case, you'd need to create unique file requests/folders as you mentioned.
I apologize for a lack of clarity. Let me elaborate further, and thank you for responding.
I am not assuming that my "customers" have a Dropbox account. I am asking them to upload a file to my Dropbox account and then I have an automated process hosted in the AWS cloud which uses the Python SDK to download the file to be processed and subsequently upload the processed file to Dropbox, again to my Dropbox, and then notifying the original poster that their processed file is available for them to download.
I know that I could engineer the workflow so that I create a folder per customer and then it would be clear who to reply to. I was wondering if there was a more efficient way to accomplish this, which could be done if I could retrieve which files were uploaded as a result of which file requests (clearly having each file request have its own folder is one way to distinguish). Thanks.
I strongly suspect, from viewing analogous questions that the answer is "no", but I did not find an answer that I thought definitively answered exactly this question and also some of the relevant posts were three years old!
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Stafflymanhurd Thanks for following up and clarifying. Dropbox does not offer an API for retrieving the specific details for file request submissions like that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. That being the case, you'd need to create unique file requests/folders as you mentioned.
Thank you!
I am not sure what is wrong with my browser but every time I hit "Accept as Solution" I get a "Request too Large" error from the server. That being said I certainly accept the solution :-).
By way of background I am cobbling together a prototype mainly using AWS but roped in Dropbox since the API was friendlier for what I needed than implementing the equivalent functionality straight against S3!
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