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paradoxIn
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

How to list all the shared files and folders

Hii,  I have used the https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_folders with Dropbox-API-Select-User header, but only the folders shared is retrieved, also, only top level folders (root folders) are...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago
paradoxIn wrote:

... How to retrive all the folders recursively that is shared ...

The share folders are not organized in a tree (or something like), so no recursion can be defined, it's rather linear list.

 

paradoxIn wrote:

Hii,

 ..., how to get all the files shared with the user. ...

To list shared files is other access point: 2/sharing/list_received_files. Files shared within shared folder can be enumerated like any other folder. 😉

Hope this helps.

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