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Sharing folders via API with outside email address
Using the Python SDK. I am creating a shared folder and would like to invite someone to collaborate on the folder and I only have the email address. We are on Dropbox Plus and it is not a team ac...
When using sharing_add_folder_member, you specify the people to invite via the 'members' parameter, which expects a list of AddMember. (Apologies the type isn't more clearly shown there. We'll make a note of that.)
So, you can invite someone to a shared folder using the Python SDK like this:
member_selector = dropbox.sharing.MemberSelector.email("user@example.com") add_member = dropbox.sharing.AddMember(member_selector) members = [add_member] # this can contain more than one member to add res = dbx.sharing_add_folder_member(shared_folder_id, members)Hope this helps!
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffWhen using sharing_add_folder_member, you specify the people to invite via the 'members' parameter, which expects a list of AddMember. (Apologies the type isn't more clearly shown there. We'll make a note of that.)
So, you can invite someone to a shared folder using the Python SDK like this:
member_selector = dropbox.sharing.MemberSelector.email("user@example.com")
add_member = dropbox.sharing.AddMember(member_selector)
members = [add_member] # this can contain more than one member to add
res = dbx.sharing_add_folder_member(shared_folder_id, members)
Hope this helps!
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