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Listing files using Dropbox Python
I am trying to access files stored on my Dropbox using the offical Dropbox SDK for Python.. I tried a few ways of putting in the directory name whose contents I wanted to have listed based off of a s...
OMG!
Yes, such things don't have to be shared (can be dangerous - direct access to your account on the wider public)!
That what you are sharing looks like access token. It's NOT application key.
The application key is ID of the application you have registered. You need this key, not the access token. The last error comes from erroneous places free text on place where client ID is expected (nothing related to access token). You application ID (or key) can be seen on your application page when you select your application here (the same link I post above, but seems you skipped it). Find out your application key there and put it on the APP_KEY var initialization into the example.
Hope now all will be Ok.
Do I need some special permissions to download the files using this API, if I am a newly added member to the Dropbox group? I have given myself the permission for files.content.read.
sambapy wrote:Do I need some special permissions to ...
If you mean scopes, Yes (but they are not special 🙂). Every operation falls to some group that expect particular scope. Your application (and all associated tokens) needs granted appropriate set of scopes to be able perform needed operations. Scopes can be changed in your application page here (go to Permissions tap). The same (or needed, at least) scopes need to be granted on authorization time! Take in mind once a scope gets changed, new token are needed, so any changes can take effect (such type of changes are NOT retroactive).
One more thing. When you try files listing (such operations are granted by default), take in mind that first call does NOT mandatory return entire result, you may need to call follow up list continuation calls.
Don't try to interpret things you don't intend to use (like openID for instance). 😉 Go further with the basics (initially least).
This is what my OpenID Scopes reads:
Scopes used for OpenID Connect.At this time, team-scoped apps cannot request OpenID Connect scopes.Should I interpret it to mean that I cannot list/access the files on my Dropbox?For an example using Python, take a look here. You can keep the refresh token and use for follow up instantiation without full OAuth flow. Just put file listing procedure on the place of 'users_get_current_account' method there. 😉
Hope this helps.
Thanks for sticking around, and patiently responding to my queries.
I get the following error:Error (400)
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Invalid client_id: "this is long-gibberish"
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