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manish1988

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7 years ago

Need an API for list of folders and papers in tree structure

I am building an app to create / update paper docs by selecting a dropdown containing a list of folders and papers in a tree structure. Which API or combination of APIs can I use to retrieve all the ...

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Greg-DB

Dropbox Community Moderator

7 years ago

Dropbox doesn't offer a way to list Paper folders and docs exactly like that. You'll need to use /2/paper/docs/list and /2/paper/docs/list/continue to list docs themselves, and then use /2/paper/docs/get_folder_info to get the folder info. You can then use that information to create the structure you want.

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