Dropbox Webhooks to get group changes notifications

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I'm using the Dropbox Business API. I've been successful at experimenting for a while with webhooks for file changes and having an understanding of the documents getting uploaded/deleted from Dropbox from all the users.Now I need to do the same but for user permissions. I need to understand given a list of users with access to Dropbox, what folders they can access, and ideally I want to do it using Dropbox webhooks. This business is set up in a way that users get access to the right folders by putting them into a Group.So, I mainly have one question: can webhooks register and push a notification when there is change in a group? (i.e. an user has been added/deleted to/from a group)When configuring the Dropbox app for the webhook, I've tried giving it all the permissions that seemed to make sense but I’m only getting notifications when a member has been added/deleted to a shared folder, and not when a group (with users in it) has got access to that particular folder, if it makes sense.&nbsp;I would really appreciate if you could give us some insight here and provide any documentation that is not on the website (if there is any).

Greg-DB · Answer

Unfortunately Dropbox doesn't offer the ability to get webhook notifications for changes to groups, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

andreavillares · Answer

Thank you for your quick reply.Is there any other alternative that I could use?I tried a similar approach using cursors and different methods such asteam_groups_listteam_groups_list_continue(cursor)team_groups_members_listteam_groups_members_list_continue(cursor)&nbsp;and I was expecting to obtain when calling the continue with the previous cursors, an empty list if there wasn't any changes in the groups or the members within a group but it doesn't seem to be working that way as it does with other methods such asteam_members_get_infoteam_members_get_info_continue&nbsp;however in team_members_get_info, I don't get new information when a member gets added to a group.Does my problem make sense?

Greg-DB · Answer

I'm not sure I quite follow your latest post. Using team_groups_list and team_groups_list_continue is the right way to list the groups on a team, and using team_groups_members_list and team_groups_members_list_continue is the right way to list the members of a group, but "team_members_get_info_continue" isn't a Dropbox API method. Was that a typo?
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Perhaps you could share the relevant code snippet(s) of what you have so far to help illustrate?

andreavillares · Answer

Hi, I'm referring to the following API endpoints:&nbsp;/members/list/members/list/continue&nbsp;/groups/list/groups/list/continue&nbsp;/groups/members/list/groups/members/list/continue&nbsp;At the moment I can call&nbsp;/members/list to get a list of all the members within Dropbox Business, and if I call&nbsp;/members/list/continue with the latest cursors and hasn't been any changes, it returns with a new cursor and has_more false, so my code can interpret that if there are no members returned when calling&nbsp;/members/list/continue, there hasn't been any changes to the list of members.&nbsp;However this is not the case when I call the other endpoints (that considering that it is based on a cursor, I was expecting similar behaviour). I.e. when I call&nbsp;&nbsp;/groups/members/list giving it a group id, it returns a list of the members of the group and a cursor. When I use that cursor to call&nbsp;/groups/members/list/continue, it returns the same list even if there hasn't been any changes.And same happens when calling&nbsp;&nbsp;/groups/list and&nbsp;/groups/list/continue.&nbsp;Does it make sense now? Thanks in advance!&nbsp;PS: in my posts before I was referring&nbsp;to the Python SDK&nbsp;

Greg-DB · Answer

Thanks for following up and clarifying. The behavior of "use that cursor to call /groups/members/list/continue, it returns the same list even if there hasn't been any changes" doesn't sound like the expected behavior. It looks like that's a bug on these /2/team/groups/list/continue and /2/team/groups/members/list/continue endpoints. I'll ask the team to look into it and I'll follow up here once I have any updates to share.
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