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time4116
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8 years ago
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Download shared folders via /2/files/download call

I've been calling /2/files/list_folder and then calling /2/files/download to download all files of a specific user. However, I noticed that I'm not able to download the content of the following types...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

The /2/files/list_folder[/continue] interface is paginated, and you're not guaranteed to get all of the results on the first page. You need to check the `has_more` value in the response, and call back to /2/files/list_folder/continue, if it's true. Keep calling back to retrieve all of the pages until `has_more` is false in order to get all of the entries. You can find more information in the /2/files/list_folder documentation.

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time4116
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Hmmm, I kept getting errors when I was trying to paiginate via PowerShell but didn't have any issues when I used requests via Python. Well, thanks for all your help Greg, really appreciate it!

 

Here's the PowerShell code I was using:

 

$arg = '{"path": "","recursive": true,"include_media_info": false,"include_deleted": false,"include_has_explicit_shared_members": false,"include_mounted_folders": true}'


$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add("Authorization", $token)
$headers.Add("Dropbox-API-Select-User", $dbmid)
    
$Folders = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder -Method Post -Headers $headers -ContentType "application/json; charset=utf-8" -body $arg
$allFiles = $folders.entries.path_display


while ($folders.has_more -eq "True") {
    $json = '{"cursor": "' + $folders.cursor + '"}'
    $json
    $folders = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://api.dropbox.com/2/files/list_folder/continue -Body $json -ContentType "application/json; charset=utf-8" `
        -Headers @{ Authorization = $token } -Method Post
    $allFiles += $folders.entries.path_display
}

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