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Andrey_Golub1
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6 years ago

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Is there any way to find out who modified or created the file using Dropbox API?
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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Andrey_Golub1 As Здравко mentioned, you can get the information about who last modified a file from the FileMetadata.sharing_info.modified_by information returned by /2/files/get_metadata (or elsewhere, such as /2/files/list_folder[/continue]). 

The Dropbox API doesn't return information about which user originally created a particular file, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

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