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RobFearnside
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6 years ago
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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 fil...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    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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6 years ago

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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