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white1
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3 years ago

Unable to create a shared link using Dropbox API in python

I suddenly have an issue with the Dropbox API. The following error found while trying to create a shared link.   stone.backends.python_rsrc.stone_validators.ValidationError: unknown tag 'banned_m...
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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

white1 Thanks for the report. As Rich and Здравко said, this error would occur because the user's account is currently banned from creating links, and note that that applies to the user account for the access token being used, which is not necessarily your own account.

 

And it appears the Dropbox Python SDK is not currently updated to handle that particular error properly, so it raises a ValidationError instead, but I'll ask the team to fix that up.

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