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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...
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
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community Moderatorfiles_list_folder and files_list_folder_continue return the size of files only, not the size of the folder. You could list all of the contents of a folder using files_list_folder and files_list_folder_continue and 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?
- Greg-DB
rahulj1 You'll need to write and test your own code to suit your particular use case, but it might look something like this:
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 dbx = dbx.with_path_root(dropbox.common.PathRoot.root(root_namespace_id)) total_file_size = 0 total_file_count = 0 def handle_entries(entries): size = 0 count = 0 for entry in entries: if (isinstance(entry, dropbox.files.FileMetadata)): size += entry.size count += 1 return size, count folder_path = "" res = dbx.files_list_folder(path=folder_path, recursive=True) add_file_size, add_file_count = handle_entries(res.entries) total_file_size += add_file_size total_file_count += add_file_count while res.has_more: res = dbx.files_list_folder_continue(cursor=res.cursor) add_file_size, add_file_count = handle_entries(res.entries) total_file_size += add_file_size total_file_count += add_file_count print("total file size: " + str(total_file_size)) print("total file count: " + str(total_file_count))
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