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Explorer | Level 3

8 years ago

Change Notification

Hallo, Is there a way to register the authorized client for change notifications, including added/changed/removed files/folders? Thanks. Lg Sandro

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Greg-DB

Dropbox Community Moderator

8 years ago

Yes, if you're building a server-side app, the best way to know when things change is to use webhooks:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/webhooks

If you're building a client-side app, the best way to know when things change is to use /2/files/list_folder/longpoll: (or the respective method in whatever SDK/library you're using, if any)

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder-longpoll

SandroDeveloper

Explorer | Level 3

8 years ago

Thanks for your quick answer.

I'll do that soon.

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