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Question on retrieving the dbmid for my user
I've just inherited a Python script that uses the Dropbox API to backup data from a third-party source to a folder.
When the employee that used the script went on to another job, his account wa...
IDs that start with "dbmid:" are "team member IDs", often named "team_member_id" on the API. There are a number of ways you can retrieve that via the API, such as by calling /2/team/members/list_v2[/continue], to list all team members, or /2/team/members/get_info_v2, to look up a specific team member. Those are team_members_list_v2, team_members_list_continue_v2, and team_members_get_info_v2, respectively, in the official Dropbox API v2 Python SDK. You could also use the API v2 Explorer if you just need to try out a call manually.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox StaffIDs that start with "dbmid:" are "team member IDs", often named "team_member_id" on the API. There are a number of ways you can retrieve that via the API, such as by calling /2/team/members/list_v2[/continue], to list all team members, or /2/team/members/get_info_v2, to look up a specific team member. Those are team_members_list_v2, team_members_list_continue_v2, and team_members_get_info_v2, respectively, in the official Dropbox API v2 Python SDK. You could also use the API v2 Explorer if you just need to try out a call manually.
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