HTTP API to retrieve file comments info

ampinwatec No, unfortunately I don't have any news on this.

I too desperately need a way to view/sort/export comments. My team has been commenting on PDFs (25,000ish so far) with the hopes that comments can be accessed or at the minimum opening the API to allow our developers pull out that data.

Would be a monumental game changer for us.

bpfister777 Thanks for the feedback! I don't have any news on this unfortunately, but I'll follow up here if/when I do.

Note that for Dropbox teams using the Business APIs, the get_events endpoint does return comment events.

It seems that there is an undocumented API for that /comments2/list_comments/. Here is a very basic sample to demonstrate : https://rpeyron.github.io/dropbox-comments-downloader/dropbox-comments-downloader.html

Please keep in mind that undocumented/private APIs are subject to change without notice, and so should not be used by third party apps.

Hello! Offering access to comments will cover an additional requirement, that of using comments as a replacement for file/folder description. I know this is not good design but if there is a desperate need to store a brief title for a document, that is the closest structure to rely on.

aviennas Thanks for the additional feedback!

Greetings...  Another user here who would really like to be able to access PDF comments from the API.  This would greatly improve the usefulness to my team.

dwissing Thanks for the note!

Loooking for this too. Getting a way to get comments and the time of those comments on a API is a mus have!

Thanks

mbernardo Thanks for the feedback!

is there any updates on fetching comments for files via API? would be very useful

ivs1234 No, unfortunately I don't have an update on this request.

This is a critical piece for an integration we are building.  Any update on if this is even being considered?

JpMaxMan I don't have any news to share on this request unfortunately.

Hi, we are 5 years after the first request for this feature and still no roadmap about it ?

AngelBlot No, unfortunately I don't have any news on this request.

Hi !

Do we have a way to retrieve these comments to generate a report?

--> Today I have to comment on the doc, then if I want to share these comments in an email, I have to copy/paste it one by one. A way to automatically generate a report with comments and the page would be perfect

AngelBlot Dropbox still doesn't offer API functionality for programmatically retrieving comments. I can only help with questions about the API in particular, but if you would to ask about potential non-API features of the Dropbox product itself, you can reach out to support.