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Coolioo
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4 years ago

Dropbox API FileMetadata - How to determine a file is a new file added to Dropbox or a file update?

Hi,   I'm using DropBox API and WebHook to monitor the file changes on DropBox server side. When new files are added, or existing files are updated, my app will be notified by WebHook, and I can ...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68294541/dropbox-api-filemetadata-how-to-determine-a-file-is-a-new-file-added-to-dropbo ]

 

Without comparing with your previously retrieved metadata for the file (i.e., to see if there was any), the Dropbox Metadata information doesn't offer a way to determine if the file is new or not. I'll pass this along as a feature request, but I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.

 

You could call /2/files/list_revisions to see the file version history, but that would require an extra API call for each file you want to check.

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