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prabhat1999
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2 years ago

Tagging Folder

I have manually added the tags to a folder. now I want to search the folders with the given tag. is there a way to get only folders not files? PS:- I am aware of 2/files/search_v2 API but I want...
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prabhat1999
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

I am creating a custom program to search the folder with specific tags

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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

That's correct, while this is not officially documented, you can put a tag as the search query for /2/files/search_v2 to search for the tag.

 

For example, in the Python SDK, along with setting the "folder" category, that would look like this:

result = dbx.files_search_v2(query="#testingtag", options=dropbox.files.SearchOptions(file_categories=[dropbox.files.FileCategory.folder]))

 

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