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Access Shared Folder with API
Hi Team, can any one please help me to get access in shared folder to extract the meta data like subfolder size and file count. I was unable to locate the shared folder through api always it say...
While I am trying with Root path, I am getting below error
BadInputError('8b261218809945cb828cd56a177f8df2', 'Error in call to API function "users/get_current_account": This API function operates on a single Dropbox account, but the OAuth 2 access token you provided is for an entire Dropbox Business team. Since your API app key has team member file access permissions, you can operate on a team member\'s Dropbox by providing the "Dropbox-API-Select-User" HTTP header or "select_user" URL parameter to specify the exact user <https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams>.')
DB-Des
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi rahulj1
You are still trying to call a user endpoint using a team token, that's why you are receiving errors.
The following code snippet should help you get the information you are looking for:
import dropbox
dbx = dropbox.DropboxTeam("ACCESS_TOKEN").as_user("TEAM_MEMBER_ID")
root_namespace_id = dbx.users_get_current_account().root_info.root_namespace_id
path = ""
print(dbx.with_path_root(dropbox.common.PathRoot.root(root_namespace_id)).files_list_folder(path))
In the above code, you can use the team token you have used previously, and call the .as_user() method with the team_member_id, to retrieve the data.
Hi Deb,
Thanks for some how it works with user ID of team member, but I don't know how I can utilize the output to get folder size and file count
ListFolderResult(cursor='AAEy9LSRRFtili8gf8rcZ29hN4PQliBGohGDpBAbKUyJeRJ65mH93FzWh0YFgxfN214N0YM2V7m3lxP_hIQLEepf-Fyqao9Cncw5Hzi-0zCnVhS1-HyQnFVtim3RFt1eWuc9T9DniZ0idfexWLym-8G77lbzL0dVLD0AYg_zkW_cNcFOJ4gEun-DRkNbAcFHBtmjq1IrflOpNKDkrEoGTZXP3eQLgY2AqU1kep_okDhwS1cmNQdMPdT1wG51Et08dqIUtJSt_aXEXC8Ydc77mMdR', entries=[FolderMetadata(id='id:WKNO8Vu_-TsAAAAAAAAAEw', name='Pivotal Brand Team Folder', parent_shared_folder_id='3494645729', path_display='/Pivotal Brand Team Folder', path_lower='/pivotal brand team folder', preview_url=NOT_SET, property_groups=NOT_SET, shared_folder_id='1143758326', sharing_info=FolderSharingInfo(no_access=False, parent_shared_folder_id='3494645729', read_only=False, shared_folder_id='1143758326', traverse_only=False)), FolderMetadata(id='id:WKNO8Vu_-TsAAAAAAAAAJg', name='Rahul Jaiswal', parent_shared_folder_id='3494645729', path_display='/Rahul Jaiswal', path_lower='/rahul jaiswal', preview_url=NOT_SET, property_groups=NOT_SET, shared_folder_id=NOT_SET, sharing_info=FolderSharingInfo(no_access=False, parent_shared_folder_id='3494645729', read_only=False, shared_folder_id=NOT_SET, traverse_only=False))], has_more=False)
- DB-Des
files_list_folderandfiles_list_folder_continuereturn the size of files only, not the size of the folder. You could list all of the contents of a folder usingfiles_list_folderandfiles_list_folder_continueand then add up the files and file sizes, for all of the files in the folder, to get a file count and size, respectively.Hi,
Thanks for your response.
Could you please provide sample code snippet to extract size and count from a team folder?
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