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Wildcard search
I'm writing an app where I'd like to be able to search for all video/image files in a particular folder. For example, for the root I was imagining that I'd be able to post something like this to files/search_v2 :
{
"options" :
{
"file_categories": ["video", "image"]
}
}
but that fails because I haven't supplied a 'query' parameter. If I supply this :
{
"query" : "*",
"options" :
{
"file_categories": ["video", "image"]
}
}
then there are no matches (presumbly because I have no files with an asterisk in the name).
Is it possible to search for files (or folders) without having to specify a 'query' (in order to find all files which match the supplied 'options' criteria)?
No, unfortunately, the Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to do a wildcard search like this, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
While not ideal, as a workaround, you could list the full contents of the folder using /2/files/list_folder[/continue] and filter based on the file extension.
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- Greg-DB
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No, unfortunately, the Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to do a wildcard search like this, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
While not ideal, as a workaround, you could list the full contents of the folder using /2/files/list_folder[/continue] and filter based on the file extension.
Isn't this the proposed solution for getting all files that have changed since a given date? I'm unclear how we can do that without being able to supply a wildcard. Is there another recommendation for achieving that?
- Greg-DB
The /2/files/list_folder and /2/files/list_folder/continue endpoints do not restrict you to listing files that have changed since a certain date (nor do they offer date filters exactly). They can be used to list the full contents under any path, such as a specific folder or the root folder (identified by the empty string "').
The /2/files/list_folder/continue endpoint can also be used to keep track of further changes over time.
I recommend reading the File Access Guide and Detecting Changes Guide for more information.
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