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ch26
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6 years ago

webhook delta

Hi Team How to get what file path has been changed using webhooks in conjunction with list_folder/continue using deltas?? It will be very helpful if anyone posts sample json returned value from web...
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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Dropbox webhook notifications only tell you when something has changed. They don't include information about what exactly has changed. You can find an example of what a webhook notification body looks like in the webhook documentation under "Receiving notifications":

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/webhooks#notifications

Note that webhook notifications contain both "delta" and "list_folder" values for backwards compatibility for old apps. If you're developing your app now, you should only use the "list_folder" values.

When you get a webhook notification, you should look up the access token you have stored for the specified account ID(s), and then use it, along with a corresponding cursor, if any, to call /2/files/list_folder[/continue] to find out what changed for that account.

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