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Ankita W.'s avatar
Ankita W.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

How to get last modified date for folders in Dropbox V2 API ?

Hi, I am trying migrate from v1 to v2 and get to the user's root folder and view all the list of files and folders with last modified date. I am passing "https://api.dropbox.com/2/files/list_folder"...
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Diegovsky's avatar
Diegovsky
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Watching for changes isn't feasible if the user turns off their computer or loses connectivity. It seems that dropbox.com is able to show the last modified dates for folders so why isn't that exposed thorugh the V2 API?

 

Also, maintaining a live connection with dropbox would kinda suck since it would keep constantly polling for changes (which is expensive) and will consume a lot of band/API requests. What does the dev team recommend to solve this issue (that is: noticing server changes)? Is there a better way to know if there were any changes on the server?

 

My application is a oneshot app, which means it only compares disk changes and server changes once, synchronizes what has changed and then shuts off.

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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Diegovsky Thanks for the feedback! For reference, not all of the functionality used in the Dropbox product itself is available via the API, but I'll pass this along to the team. In addition to Здравко's guidance, be sure to check out the File Access Guide and Detecting Changes Guide, if you haven't already.

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