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Delete Folder Using PowerShell
I can't figure out how to delete a file in my Dropbox using Powershell. I can upload fine using this : $arg = '{ "path": "' + $TargetFilePath + '", "mode": "add", "autorename": true, "mute": fals...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorUsing the /2/files/delete_v2 endpoint is the right way to delete a folder. Calling it will be similar to /2/files/upload, but with some important differences.
The /2/files/upload endpoint is a "content-upload" endpoint, so it takes the parameters as JSON in the "Dropbox-API-Arg" header.
The /2/files/delete_v2 endpoint is an "RPC" endpoint though, so it takes the parameters as JSON in the request body.
If you have code for /2/files/delete_v2 that doesn't seem to be working, print out the response body you get when you call it. If the call isn't working, there should be an error message in the response body. (You may need to add some extra code to print that out, e.g., as shown in this post.)
Thank you for your reply, sorry that I don't understand everything you have explained here, this is the first time I've attempted anything like this.
The best I could do is to take the working upload code and change it to the below which isn't correct but the closest I could get to what I thought it should be. It seems that my Invoke-RestMethod command parameters are wrong and probably the headers too.
$TargetFilePath = "/20181008"
$DropBoxAccessToken = "<access-token>"
$arg = '{ "path": "' + $TargetFilePath + '" }'
$authorization = "Bearer " + $DropBoxAccessToken
$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add("Authorization", $authorization)
$headers.Add("Dropbox-API-Arg", $arg)
$headers.Add("Content-Type", 'application/json')
Invoke-RestMethod -Method Delete -Uri https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/delete_v2 -Headers $headersHere is the output after the PowerShell script fails:
Invoke-RestMethod : The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.
At (SCRIPT LOCATION)\Dropbox-Delete.ps1:12 char:1
+ Invoke-RestMethod -Method Delete -Uri https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/fi ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-RestMethod], WebExc
eption
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand
- Greg-DB
Can you print the response body as mentioned/linked in my last post? You'll want to retrieve the error message from it to debug things like this.
I just tried adding the code from each answer in that post but I get no output from PowerShell at all.
First one I tried:
$TargetFilePath = "/20181008" $DropBoxAccessToken = "<access-token>" $arg = '{ "path": "' + $TargetFilePath + '" }' $authorization = "Bearer " + $DropBoxAccessToken $headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]" $headers.Add("Authorization", $authorization) $headers.Add("Dropbox-API-Arg", $arg) $headers.Add("Content-Type", 'application/json') $resp = try { Invoke-RestMethod -Method Delete -Uri https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/delete_v2 -Headers $headers } catch { $_.Exception.Response }Second:
$TargetFilePath = "/20181008" $DropBoxAccessToken = "<access-token>" $arg = '{ "path": "' + $TargetFilePath + '" }' $authorization = "Bearer " + $DropBoxAccessToken $headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]" $headers.Add("Authorization", $authorization) $headers.Add("Dropbox-API-Arg", $arg) $headers.Add("Content-Type", 'application/json') try { $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Delete -Uri https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/delete_v2 -Headers $headers } catch { $result = $_.Exception.Response.GetResponseStream() $reader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($result) $reader.BaseStream.Position = 0 $reader.DiscardBufferedData() $responseBody = $reader.ReadToEnd(); }I must be formatting this wrong?
- Greg-DB
I believe your second version is closer, as it actually reads the body. (The first one doesn't appear to.)
In both though, you're not actually printing out the result or saving it anyway. E.g., something like:
Write-Output $responseBody
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