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Search endpoint returning 500 internal server error
This same API has been working solidly for years, but now in the past 2-ish days it has been returning more and more errors.
Sometimes it works for quite a while, but sometimes it keeps erroring fo...
This should be resolved now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks!
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for the information!
Greg-DBDropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThis should be resolved now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks!
The errors actually "magically" went away about 24+ hours after reporting it.
Can you give any details as to what was wrong and if anything was actually fixed?I'm also wondering if it was caused by the legacy permissions/scopes, which I migrated to the new system, so if this was actually what fixed it, but just rolled out slowly/took a day to apply?
- Greg-DB
Thanks for confirming! This was an issue with the search backend that the engineering team worked to resolve. This wasn't related to the scopes migration.
Is it possible that this issue has happened again?
My nightly script began failing on the 8th of December with error 500 Internal Server Error when accessing https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search.
The same script has been running successfully for months.
Thanks in advance for any information or advice.
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