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Ruslan G.1's avatar
Ruslan G.1
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Terrible experience with Paper API

Hell,  I am a long time Dropbox paid user and I`ve decided to convert propietary notes to Dropbox Paper documents on my phone. Unable to find import function I created simple program to do just t...
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Ruslan G.1's avatar
Ruslan G.1
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Thanks.

As a resolution there is 2 serious issues I would consider to prioritize.

1. Deleted documents visible through API. This is a showstopper as it does not give ability to fix import mistakes.

2. No way to filter documents by a folder when fetching a list of documents. And there is no folder_id in document metadata. Ugh. This makes folders invisible to API (except when creating).

 

Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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7 years ago

Thanks!

For the folder information, there is /2/paper/docs/get_folder_info, but that does require one call per Paper doc, so I can see that being inefficient for some use cases. I've sent this along as a feature request for a better solution.

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