Tagging Folder

[prabhat1999]

I write a code to get the data of the tags listed on a folder. but when I hit the API

URL = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/tags/get"

I get error stating
Failed to get tags: 409 - {"error_summary": "path/not_file/...", "error": {".tag": "path", "path": {".tag": "not_file"}}}

i also try to run the function

dropbox.files_tags_get(entry.path_display)

but gets error
AttributeError: module 'dropbox' has no attribute 'files_tags_get'
what will be the solution for this? how can I read the tags of a folder?

[Здравко]

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@prabhat1999 wrote:

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I get error stating
Failed to get tags: 409 - {"error_summary": "path/not_file/...", "error": {".tag": "path", "path": {".tag": "not_file"}}}

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Hi @prabhat1999,

If you take a look to the documentation:

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not_file Void We were expecting a file, but the given path refers to something that isn't a file.

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In this context, are you sure the path in use denotes a file and not something else (and all of this is in context of correct call - not call to another access point that does support only files)?

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@prabhat1999 wrote:

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i also try to run the function

dropbox.files_tags_get(entry.path_display)

but gets error
AttributeError: module 'dropbox' has no attribute 'files_tags_get'
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Where does your 'dropbox' object come from? 🤔 Is it a real Dropbox client object? 🧐 Or just you have used the imported dropbox module. 🙂 The mentioned 'attribute' is (or rather would be) part of client object. Do read the documentation more careful!

Hope this gives direction.

[Greg-DB]

@prabhat1999 Make sure you're supplying a valid path. For example, make sure your path doesn't end with a "/". It looks like there's a bug where the server incorrectly returns a ''malformed_path' error as 'not_file'. I'll ask the team to fix that up, but you can avoid that by supplying a properly formatted path. Update: this should now be properly returning a "path/malformed_path" error.

Also, as Здравко noted, when using the Python SDK, you need a Dropbox client object to make calls like files_tags_get. You can find the documentation for making a Dropbox object here, as well as examples here.