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https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders should return all folders user can access?
Hi,
I've been looking at the below endpoint, forgive me if this is a silly question. Should this return all folders I can access in the dropbox ui?
https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folde...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi Ashley, the /sharing/list_folders[/continue] endpoints should list all of the shared folders the specified user has access to. In your example, is "FOLDER" missing, or is it only "SUB FOLDER" that you're expecting and not seeing?
The endpoint wouldn't list the subfolders (e.g., "SUB FOLDER") or other contents of those shared folders, in case that's what you mean (since the subfolders aren't themselves shared folders, but are just in shared folders). You'd have to then call /files/list_folder[/continue] for each shared folder you want, if so.
Also, make sure you always check for a cursor in the response. If there is one, it indicates that there are more shared folders to return, and you should call /sharing/list_folders/continue to get them.
In any case, if you're still seeing issues with this, please share some sample code and output to help illustrate it.
As mentioned in https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_folders , API: https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders should return cursor variable, so that I can use it in https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders/continue API to get sub-folders, however https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders is not returning cursor variable in response. How do I get get cursor variable?
- Greg-DB
Inderjeetdev The cursor field will be "Present if there are additional shared folders that have not been returned yet.". If the cursor is not returned, that means that there are no more shared folders to return, and so it is not necessary to call /2/sharing/list_folders/continue.
Also, note that the /2/sharing/list_folders[/continue] endpoints only return shared folders themselves, not the contents of shared folders. To list all of the contents of any particular folder, you would use /2/files/list_folder[/continue] instead.
Greg-DB There are still sub-sub-folders inside the shared folder which are not returned by the API https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders . I can access sub-sub-folders by direct link, so it means they are shared to me, API is not fetching them (it fetched only two sub-folders) however as you mentioned that this API only return shared folders themselves, not the contents of shared folders, so, I can ignore it for now because I need file names.
Main issue is that if I depend on https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder , it needs 'Dropbox-API-Select-User', so it don't allow to access shared team folder outside a user's folder. How do I access them through API?
Inderjeetdev wrote:...
Main issue is that if I depend on https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder , it needs 'Dropbox-API-Select-User', so it don't allow to access shared team folder outside a user's folder. How do I access them through API?
Hi Inderjeetdev,
Yes, you are correct. Take a look on the discussion here, so I not to repeat everything again. 😉
Good luck.
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