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rajas
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9 years ago

From Where I can get the File ID

I am trying to download a file using rest service using V2 API.  curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/file_requests/get \ --header "Authorization: Bearer <Access Token>" \ --header ...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

You can get the ID for a file or folder from the Metadata object for the file or folder, e.g., as returned by /2/files/get_metadata or /2/files/list_folder.

 

If you want to download a file though, you should use /2/files/download (not /2/file_requests/get). For /2/files/download you can supply either the path or ID of the file you want to download. (The /2/file_requests/get endpoint is for getting the information about a file request, not a file, by specifying the ID for the file request.)

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rajas
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9 years ago

Thanks Greg.

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