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Sean P.12
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Know if access_token is for an App Folder or Full Access?

We have a bunch of mixed up authenticated accounts from the past few years in our database, where some were given "Full Access" early on and later it was changed to just using the "App Folder".   I...
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axew3
Collaborator | Level 8
9 years ago

Hello, i was doing an answer about, but before to start a lonely way to discover how to i've give a search and find out this post: so i take for good that this is the best way to know if an app is Folder App or Full Dropbox:


For future reference, to solve my query I did the following:
Sent an API request to /sharing/get_folder_metadata with a made up shared_folder_id
This will always return an error (unless you somehow managed to pick a shared_folder_id that exists!)
If the error contained a response (which will always be invalid_id) then the access_token has Full Dropbox access
If the error was empty, then the access_token has only App Folder access

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