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search dropbox folder
can anybody tell me a way to search a specific folder in dropbox to populate an array of strings with the filenames in that folder? Im trying to implement a way for users to search for a file in a dropbox folder.
- I finally got it! lol Thank you so much for you time and help. It has been greatly appreciated and a learning experience for me. I ended up using "//" as my path and it works perfect.
Cheers!
Kevin
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Using the Dropbox API, you can search for files and folders under a particular path using the /2/files/search endpoint:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-search
If you're using an official SDK, there will be a corresponding search method for that.- thanks again greg. however I'm not really understanding how i would be able to search for all the filenames within a specific dropbox folder, and add those filenames to an array of strings, to then use as a base for my user to search for a specific string in that array. sorry if I'm not making to much sense. this is all very new to me. FYI - I'm using swift 3
- Greg-DB
Since you're using Swift, are you using the official SwiftyDropbox SDK? In that case, you'd use the search method in FilesRoutes. As long as the call succeeds, it will return a SearchResult. You can then use the SearchResult.matches, which is an array of SearchMatch. SearchMatch.metadata contains the FileMetadata for the match, which contains the name, pathDisplay, etc.
Give that a try and let us know if you run in to any issues.
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