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Daniel L.20
11 years agoHelpful | Level 6
get email addresses of members of your shared_folders
According to documentation, you can get a list of members on a shared folder with https://api.dropbox.com/1/shared_folders/<id>
and the response will contain:
"members": [
{
...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
10 years agoNo update on this.
- Sinyshnar10 years agoNew member | Level 2
Hi,
I am joining this conversation as this would be really usefull. I cannot understand such a simple feature hasn't been migrated from v1 to v2.
Please keep us posted :)
- Daniel L.209 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Since v1 api is now deprecated, had to transition to v2. You can get a list of shared folders' members' emails, but now it requires multiple calls (with loops):
To get all shared folders:
https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders
in order to find the shared_folder_id of a specific folder by name.
To get all members (users) on a shared folder:
https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folder_members
in order to find the account_id of each user. This now has separate arrays for users who have accepted the share vs those who have merely been invited.
To get the email address for a user:
- makkc8 years agoNew member | Level 2
https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders
Newb question?
As this doesn't work, for me, as a direct cut and paste, can anyone point me in the direction of a guide to do this?
At persent I'm faced with cutting and pasting >50 emails and names from a small online window or alternatively starting again.
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