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IsaacMarin
5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Using API to get list folder
Hi!
I am trying to use Matlab to get the contents of a folder, my code is:
% Generate the custom header
headerFields = {'Authorization', ['Bearer ', dropboxAccessToken]};
headerFields{2,1} = 'Content-Type';
headerFields{2,2} = 'application/json';
headerFields = string(headerFields);
% Set the options for WEBWRITE
opt = weboptions;
opt.MediaType = 'application/json';
opt.CharacterEncoding = 'ISO-8859-1';
opt.RequestMethod = 'post';
opt.KeyName='data';
opt.KeyValue='{"path": "" , "recursive":true}';
opt.HeaderFields = headerFields;
%Get data
rawData = webread('https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder',opt');
but I am getting "The server returned the status 400 with message "Bad Request" in response to the request".
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you
Nevermind, I decided to use this code and worked https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35693-urlread2
Thank you
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Can you also print out the response body? It should contain a more useful error message.
- IsaacMarinHelpful | Level 6
Nevermind, I decided to use this code and worked https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35693-urlread2
Thank you
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