Retrieve thousands of files and folders without throttling

[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74813769/retrieve-thousands-of-files-and-folders-without-throttling ]

It sounds like you have the right idea here, though be sure to use batch options/endpoints whenever possible. For instance, use recursive:true on /2/files/list_folder and then page through with /2/files/list_folder/continue instead of recursing for each folder yourself. Also, you can use /2/sharing/list_file_members/batch to get the members of multiple files at once.

Also, you may want to start from /2/team/namespaces/list and /2/team/namespaces/list/continue to iterate over and list unique namespaces (such as team member folders, shared folders, etc.) as that may be more efficient than working from the member list.

And for reference, the Dropbox API does have a rate limiting system, but if/when you do hit it, the back-off period is generally only on the scale of seconds/minutes, so that hopefully wouldn't be too disruptive if you do run in to that. You can find more information in the error documentation and Error Handling Guide.