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PIttsburgh Menn's avatar
PIttsburgh Menn
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11 years ago

How to retrieve Shared Folder and Modifier information in /metadata call

I'm having issues with the shared_folder and modifier fields being returned in /metadata. I can't seem to get the API to return anything for shared_folder, and modifier always comes back as null. ...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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11 years ago

It looks like the /Test folder isn't a shared folder (e.g., looking at the icon, which is folder, but would be folder_user for shared folders). It sounds like you mean you only shared it via a shared link. These are actually two different kinds of sharing that Dropbox offers, and include_membership only applies to the former.

Specifically, "shared folders" refers to this feature:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/19

And "shared links" (which is what /shares returns) refers to this feature:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/167

If you've only shared the folder/files using shared links, they don't have any membership to report.

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