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mukund
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Not getting sharing_info in response of /search api

Hello, I am trying to get sharing_info from /search api response by passing query string for search using user_access_token. api:  https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search_v2 Response should...
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mukund
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Thanks for your response.

For below file, It is file is present in shared folder, Still I am not getting sharing_info.

{
  "has_more": false,
  "matches": [
    {
      "match_type": {
        ".tag": "filename"
      },
      "metadata": {
        ".tag": "metadata",
        "metadata": {
          ".tag": "file",
          "client_modified": "2021-05-05T07:51:18Z",
          "id": "id:Ke9OphgV2zsAAAAAAAAAHw",
          "is_downloadable": true,
          "name": "Screenshot 2021-04-09 at 11.54.18 AM.png",
          "rev": "015c19075c155150000000233388450",
          "server_modified": "2021-05-05T07:51:18Z",
          "size": 4253
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

As you said, Sharing info is optional, if it is inside shared folder then only "sharing_info" will be available. 

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

That file is not inside a shared folder. It is only individually shared. That's a different kind of sharing, and so sharing_info won't be returned for it.

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