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IvanIgorevich's avatar
IvanIgorevich
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

Re: Save As PDF Through API

Hello! So, I can send my DOCX file to specific directory, where I set converting to PDF manually. And response will return dropbox_id. Then I immediately  downloaded this file via that dropbox_id - a...
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IvanIgorevich
New member | Level 2

Thanks for answer!
I tried to create this functionality, but can not find pdf file in folder for converting. For some reason 

dbx.filesSearchV2({
  query: fileName,
  options: {
    path: folder,
    max_results: 1,
  },
});

returns `Response failed with a 400 code`, but works correctly in another folders in Dropbox. Ok, I will continue to use LibreOffice, which sometimes refuses to work without any clear reason(

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 months ago

Hi again IvanIgorevich,
There is no best way to do so. As seems you have an incorrect path - does it certainly starts with slash, for instance? 😉

I wouldn't recommend using search for this task though. It's very likely to find something you're not looking for! Search looks for similarities, not mandatory exact match. Keep this in mind. Maybe better way is to trace latest changes and listen to them - longpull.

Good luck.

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