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mpg9123
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5 years ago

Get comments / discussion for a file via API?

Hi, is there a way to get the comments (as appears on the right side panel of the web UI) for a file via the API? I have searched the methods list for logical names related to that function and also ...
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brad-robinson
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1 year ago

So how do you suggest I export comments from 8,000 files?

 

Most of the comments I received a notification - is there an API I can use to get notifications sent to me?  I don't mean file change notifications, I mean the notifications shown here:

 

 

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Greg-DB
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1 year ago

brad-robinson Unfortunately the Dropbox API doesn't offer a way for third party apps to export comments or notifications like this, but I've sent these along as feature requests. I can't promise if/when this might be offered though. Apologies I don't have better news to offer!

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    brad-robinson
    New member | Level 2
    1 year ago

    ok thanks.

     

    In the meantime, I think I have most of the comments in email notifications so I'll hopefully be able to scrape them from there.  What a mess.

     

    For the record, I've just told collaborators on three projects to stop using Dropbox for commenting and we'll be switching to something else.  Without a way to export those comments for additional tracking/archiving Dropbox is completely useless to us.

     

    Keeping user data locked up like this is not cool.

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      Greg-DB
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass this along to the team.

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