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janeR
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

create report of file type usage

I need to create a usage report of our whole company's dropbox instance.  For example, we need to know how much video files (in data size) are stored within the whole instance.  How do I go about fin...
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janeR's avatar
janeR
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Can i use the search API?  I was trying Search but I dont think I can use advance search criteria there such as extension=<video extensions> createdDate=<certain date>.  Maybe I'm missing something as far as how the API can be used.  

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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

You can use /2/files/search instead of /2/files/list_folder[/continue], but there aren't advanced search options, such as listing extensions and dates like this. You can search for specific file extensions by supplying the extension as the query, but you can only do one in a single search API call . Depending on the specifics of your team, e.g., the number of files they have, and how many extensions you're interested in, etc. this may or may not be better than just using /2/files/list_folder[/continue].

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