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gilbertwulff
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Uploading to a shared folder through api

I'm working on integrating dropbox to my company's website and we want to add a feature in to allow the users to share their shared folders to us and using the dropbox api, we upload files to the sha...
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Wuyi
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

In a request to make folder shareable, i got 

 

REQUEST

curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/share_folder \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer ' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data '{"path":"/pictures/hello","link_settings":{}}'

 

 

RESPONSE

{ "error_summary": "no_permission/", "error": { ".tag": "no_permission" }, "user_message": { "locale": "en", "text": "You don’t have permission to perform this action." } }

 

What exactly am doing wrong? 

 

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