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Lakshmi's avatar
Lakshmi
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9 years ago

How to get metadata for files and folders in Dropbox REST API v2

curl -X GET https://api.dropboxapi.com/1/metadata/auto --header "Authorization: Bearer <access token redacted>"  The above endpoint will be used for get metadata in dropbox v1 API.   How to get...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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9 years ago

In Dropbox API v2, you can get the metadata for an item using /files/get_metadata. You can list the files and folders under a particular path using /files/list_folder and /files/list_folder/continue.

 

By the way, I redacted it from your post, but for the sake of security, you should disable that access token that you posted. You can do so by revoking access to the app entirely, if the access token is for your account, here:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/account/security

 

Or, you can disable just this access token using the API:

 

v1: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#disable-token
v2: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#auth-token-revoke

 

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