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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...
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-DB
Dropbox Staff
7 years agoOnly 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
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.)
- thelwang7 years agoHelpful | Level 7
@Greg
Just to jump in here...it seems this developer has a regular "Dropbox API" app that'll be contributing to a business user's team's overall API upload limit.
But from your post, it sounds like only "Dropbox Business API" apps, which can only be added by a team's admin, can get information regarding that team's API upload limit.
Is this right? So for "regular" Dropbox API apps that individual users use, these apps have no way to know if the user's team has an upload limit and what that limit is?
Also, even if an app can access that API, it only tells the developer what that team's max monthly quota is. It won't tell the developer how many API calls are left for that month, correct?
If true, this is quite a frustrating limitation. To be nice to users, it'd be better if apps could have as much information as possible about the API limits. They can use the information to inform the user and perhaps even change their behavior (disable autosaving). Limiting this information from apps might be a great way to ensure that apps quickly go over this limit, which might be better for Dropbox sales if it encourages teams to upgrade, but is bad for developers and could hurt the Dropbox app ecosystem overall.
Would love to be corrected if I'm wrong on this. Thanks!
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