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jeji
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
API get_metadata returns 429 text/html
Recently we've been getting text/html 429 responses from the get_metadata endpoint, when we specify
Accept: application/json
header.
Response:
{:request=>{:url=>"https://api.dropboxapi.co...
- 5 years ago
To follow up here, the team confirmed that they found and resolved the issue with the excessive 429 responses with HTML bodies as of late Friday. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
UlfFahlen Thanks for the additional report. We're looking into it. Note that the development/production status of your app wouldn't affect this.
UlfFahlen
5 years agoNew member | Level 2
The problems have arised when checking if a file exists on dropbox. In our SDK:
$dropbox->has($file)
This calls get_metadata on the API.
We used this to determine if a file existed before uploading or deleting it. We have removed it from our script now and instead added an exception to handle the errors when trying to delete a file already deleted. The script now works, but the rate limit set on this API call is very limiting (and new).
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