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gm72
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Get last login information

We have been trying to get the last login information for all of our students by using the get_events endpoint and are not having success retrieving the information on the post back.

 

Is there a specific value we need to send in the request body in order to retrieve this information? Our goal is to target specific users for deletion if they have not logged in for some time.

 

Thanks in advance.

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say you "are not having success retrieving the information on the post back"? Are you getting some error or unexpected output that you can share?

     

    You should be able to use the /2/team_log/get_events[/continue] endpoints to list events for your team. For logins in particular, you can set the "category" parameter to "logins".

     

    I recommend using the API v2 Explorer to prototype and test calls like this, as it makes it easy to configure and try out calls.

    • gm72's avatar
      gm72
      Explorer | Level 3

      Thank you for your reply. I was unaware of the Dropbox API Explorer but that will be a great help going forward in conjunction with Postman.

       

      I have found, however, that what we are actually looking for is a list of end-users who have NEVER logged in. This API request seems to retrieve either failed or successful logins. 

       

      Can you point me in a direction or specific API request which will return those results if possible?

       

      Thanks again. George

      • Здравко's avatar
        Здравко
        Legendary | Level 20

        gm72 wrote:

        ...

        I have found, however, that what we are actually looking for is a list of end-users who have NEVER logged in. This API request seems to retrieve either failed or successful logins. 

        ...


        Hi gm72,

        Yes, of course. All logs keep information about events (e.g. event type, moment, other related information too). On such places usually you can't find information for something never came up on the world.

        Such type of information you have to derive from  different types of available information. As you already know, all active users can be find out, as Greg-DB has point you to. You can find all you users registered on your system as enumerate them. Use 2/team/members/list[continue] for this. Once you know the set of all users on one side and the set of active users (with logging activity) on other side, you can achieve set of users never logged in as a subset of all users when removed the active users set. That's it - simple enough. 😉

        Hope this helps.

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