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Josh D.15
7 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Warning 'You're about to link an app that will consume your team's available upload API quota'
A customer is connecting to our app and they get this warning. 'You're about to link an app that will consume your team's available upload API quota. For more information, please visit our Help C...
chirstius
Dropbox Staff
7 years agoHey Josh D.15, I would like to refer you to this response which I hope will clarify this a bit:
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-support/25K-Dropbox-Business-API-Call-Limit-on-Data-Transport/m-p/234426/highlight/true#M12799
Depending on your current plan you may or may not see a warning, but unless you have migrated (or are still grandfathered) to a Business plan that includes unlimited API calls for the specific endpoints mentioned, you will see this warning so that it is clear the app you are linking will be consuming your monthly API quota.
Hope that helps,
-Chuck
Josh D.15
7 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Also, do personal Dropbox users see this warning? Or only Business Accounts that do not have unlimited API calls?
Is there an Dropbox API we can hit to tell us which type of plan our users are trying to connect? We could then warn them about this warning, and that is is not a problem etc.
- Greg-DB7 years ago
Dropbox Staff
Only Business accounts without unlimited upload API calls are subject to the limit. Personal accounts are not affected.
If you're using the Dropbox Business API, you can check if the team has a limit via the 'upload_api_rate_limit ' feature returned by /2/team/features/get_values:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#team-features-get_values- Josh D.157 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Thank you, great info. Last question, is the Dropbox Business API different from the standard Dropbox API? Or is it just a section set of calls we can use in the normal Dropbox API?
- Greg-DB7 years ago
Dropbox Staff
The "Dropbox API" is the set of user-endpoints, and the "Dropbox Business API" is the set of team-endpoints. While they share many conventions, they cover different pieces of functionality.
Also, the Dropbox API can only be used by apps with a Dropbox API app permission, and the Dropbox Business API can only be used by apps with a Dropbox Business API permission. (The exception being the Dropbox Business API "Team member file access" permission, which can call both sets of endpoints.)
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