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Dropbox API: find the the members of single shared file
My question is in regard to Dropbox file sharing API.
Since June 2016 file can be shared with specific groups and users and external emails. Until now, specific sharing happened on the folder level.
Is there any way to retrieve the file shared members from the API? I cannot find this answer in the documentation.
Today, in my application, I am doing it for folders by callinghttps://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folder_members. From the response I extract the the groups and the shared members account ids. To get the information about the accounts (display name and email addresses) I am calling https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/users/get_account_batch with the ids.
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It's currently not possible to get the members of a single shared file, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.
To your current solution: I don't think this will work. Single-shared-file members are not necessarily the same as shared folder members. You can call /list_folder (to get the contents of a folder) or /get_metadata and pass in include_has_explicity_shared_members=true, and any FileMetadata returned will tell you whether or not a file has explicit shared members in the has_explicit_shared_members field; however, it won't give you information about the actual users.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
This is now available via /list_file_members:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_file_members
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_file_members-continue
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_file_members-batch
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