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AKASH R.'s avatar
AKASH R.
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11 years ago

Dropbox integration using REST API in web appication

Sir,      I have done authentication using REST API and OAuth 2.0 and get Access Token and Access token secret . Now I want to retrieve all files present in dropbox and show them in my web appl...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

This certainly sounds like something that you could accomplish using the Dropbox Core API. We recommend using one of the official SDKs if possible:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core

In particular, the best way to get the full list of files in an account is to use /delta:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#delta

There's a blog post about it here:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/12/efficiently-enumerating-dropbox-with-delta/

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