Need to see if your shared folder is taking up space on your dropbox 👨💻? Find out how to check here.
Forum Discussion
search with file tags api
i am trying to get the list of files based on tags using search api. when i search file name it return the data but not with the tags. please help
Hello,
I'm getting the same issue. I have a file with tags added by website and by the api endpoint 2/files/tags/add.
When I make the request only works with file name.
Hope you can help me
Hi amilcarvalho,
I checked it and everything works. Yes, it's inconvenient since not option to direct the search to tags only and many unrelated result entries may appear. In spite all tags get in the result in correct way.
What's the exact call your performed? Did you restrict the search operation in a way that can exclude some tagged entry (or all of them)? For instance, limiting search to filenames will exclude any tags. Inappropriate extensions and/or categories would reflect to ability of find all (or some) tags!
Let's hope this feature will be improved by Dropbox.
Till then, I hope this gives workaround direction.
Hello,
Thanks for you answer. I post to the endpoint "/2/files/search_v2". With just {"query":"tag1"} on body.
I want to retrieve content that contains the tag1. Is this possible?
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search_v2 \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer ' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data '{"query":"tag1"}'Hello,
Thanks for you answer. I post to the endpoint "/2/files/search_v2". With just {"query":"tag1"} on body.
I want to retrieve content that contains the tag1. Is this possible?
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search_v2 \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer ' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data '{"query":"tag1"}'
amilcarvalho wrote:...
Thanks for you answer. I post to the endpoint "/2/files/search_v2". With just {"query":"tag1"} on body.
I want to retrieve content that contains the tag1. Is this possible?...
In such a way you will receive all entries metadata matching to the query. Matching are all entries (files and folders) containing in their names, tags, or content the query value - tag1. If you want to receive content of particular entry, you need to read it accordingly! Tags themself don't have any content, they're... just tags! Clarify to yourself what content you're looking for.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
amilcarvalho Thanks for the report. If you have a file with a tag "tag1" in the connected account, that /2/files/search_v2 call should return that file, so it sounds like something may not be working properly. We'll look into it.
- Greg-DB
amilcarvalho Are you still seeing the issue with the file not being returned in the /2/files/search_v2 results when searching by tag? If so, please share the affected account ID and file ID so we can look into more specifically. Feel free to open an API ticket here to share privately. Thanks!
About Dropbox API Support & Feedback
Find help with the Dropbox API from other developers.
