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msullybos
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Dropbox API Explorer Business endpoints fail w/ "Your API app is not allowed to call this function"

I'm logged in as an admin on a Dropbox for Business test accounts. When I use Get Token in the business endpoints of Dropbox API Explorer and then try to use a command, such as team/team_folder/list,...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

The API Explorer doesn't know which permission is needed for each endpoint, so if you "Get Token" with "App Permission" set to the wrong permission for the current endpoint, you'll get this error when making the call.

 

For example, /2/team/team_folder/list requires the "Team member file access" permission, so you'd need to switch to that before getting the token.

 

I'll ask the team to see if we can update the API Explorer to make this easier.

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