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ftenario
7 years agoNew member | Level 2
Fetching File
I have list the folder and got this:
{
".tag": "file",
"name": "sample3.wav",
"path_lower": "/sample3.wav",
"path_display": "/sample3.wav",
"id": "id:YZ5OBevdROAAAAAAAAAAGA",
"client_modified": "2018-04-26T16:35:00Z",
"server_modified": "2018-04-30T23:52:25Z",
"rev": "3b38bd3b0",
....
"},
However when I fetch the file using this:
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/file_requests/get -H "Authorization: Bearer <REDACTED>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"id\": \"YZ5OBevdROAAAAAAAAAAGA\"}"
I got this error:
{"error_summary": "not_found/..", "error": {".tag": "not_found"}}
- ftenarioNew member | Level 2
Nevermind. I'm looking it the wrong way
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
It sounds like you already sorted this out, but for anyone else with the same question, the issue here is that the metadata is for a file, but the /2/file_requests/get endpoint is for returning the information about a 'file request'.
To get the metadata for a file itself, one would instead use /2/files/get_metadata, or to get the file data, /2/files/download.
ftenario By the way, I redacted it from your post, but for the sake of security, you should disable that access token that you posted originally. You can do so by revoking access to the app entirely, if the access token is for your account, here. Or, you can disable just this access token using the API.
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