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    <title>topic Re: Videos losing media_info in list_folder in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385065#M21412</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1243458"&gt;@litemotiv&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;The 'media_info' functionality on&amp;nbsp;/2/files/list_folder was deprecated earlier this year, and retired this month. You can find more information in &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder" target="_self"&gt;the documentation for the 'include_media_info' parameter for&amp;nbsp;/2/files/list_folder&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN class=" author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;If your app(s) need access to the media information for files like this, please update your app to retrieve the media information &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class="thread-878196971810806361272369 author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;from &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class="attrlink url thread-878196971810806361272369 author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;&lt;A class="attrlink" href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_metadata" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" data-target-href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_metadata"&gt;/2/files/get_metadata&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class="thread-878196971810806361272369 author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt; instead&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class=" author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN class=" author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;By the way, to clarify, the top level ".tag" in your sample is the subtype for the returned "Metadata" object, which has always been one of "file", "folder", "deleted".&amp;nbsp;That hasn't changed. By the "video" tag you mentioned, it sounds like you're actually referring to the ".tag" value for the nested (as&amp;nbsp;FileMetadata.media_info.metadata) "MediaMetadata" object, which would be one of "photo", "video".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:54:58 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-12-18T18:54:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Videos losing media_info in list_folder</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385053#M21410</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;A number of mp4 files that have been unmodified for a few months and which used to show metadata, have started losing their media_info and are now showing the 'file' tag when retrieved through the API with list_folder. I was wondering if this is something with a known cause and if there is anything i can do to make them show as 'video' with metadata again?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Thanks in advance for any advice,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;-lite&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;stdClass Object
(
    [.tag] =&amp;gt; file
    [name] =&amp;gt; &amp;lt;filename&amp;gt;.mp4
    [path_lower] =&amp;gt; /&amp;lt;filename&amp;gt;.mp4
    [path_display] =&amp;gt; /&amp;lt;filename&amp;gt;.mp4
    [id] =&amp;gt; id:4zVIEn7c_-AAAAAAAAAAXw
    [client_modified] =&amp;gt; 2019-08-21T10:28:12Z
    [server_modified] =&amp;gt; 2019-08-21T10:28:12Z
    [rev] =&amp;gt; 015909e07b8a971000000016298d580
    [size] =&amp;gt; 23850103
    [is_downloadable] =&amp;gt; 1
    [content_hash] =&amp;gt; c5689d5d31cc499ec759552c1f5f092cf6cb3dca5923d40d07a2e7f4973e34ea
    [file_lock_info] =&amp;gt; stdClass Object
        (
            [is_locked] =&amp;gt; 
        )

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&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:51:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385053#M21410</guid>
      <dc:creator>litemotiv</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-12-26T19:51:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Videos losing media_info in list_folder</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385055#M21411</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi &lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1243458"&gt;@litemotiv&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Metadata is old and seems going to be deprecated. Don't rely to them anymore. &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/html/@F55D1311E4D274BF094217A54A6087D3/images/emoticons/1f609.png" alt=":wink:" title=":wink:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:03:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385055#M21411</guid>
      <dc:creator>Здравко</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-12-18T18:03:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Videos losing media_info in list_folder</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385065#M21412</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1243458"&gt;@litemotiv&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;The 'media_info' functionality on&amp;nbsp;/2/files/list_folder was deprecated earlier this year, and retired this month. You can find more information in &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder" target="_self"&gt;the documentation for the 'include_media_info' parameter for&amp;nbsp;/2/files/list_folder&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN class=" author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;If your app(s) need access to the media information for files like this, please update your app to retrieve the media information &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class="thread-878196971810806361272369 author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;from &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class="attrlink url thread-878196971810806361272369 author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;&lt;A class="attrlink" href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_metadata" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" data-target-href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_metadata"&gt;/2/files/get_metadata&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class="thread-878196971810806361272369 author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt; instead&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class=" author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN class=" author-d-42z69zz85zx9z84zz79zvz66zz71z4yz65zz67znhz79zc7fz89zz67z5z82zikmz70zz75ztz72zz83zuyz68zz122zz69z9z122zz122zv35e"&gt;By the way, to clarify, the top level ".tag" in your sample is the subtype for the returned "Metadata" object, which has always been one of "file", "folder", "deleted".&amp;nbsp;That hasn't changed. By the "video" tag you mentioned, it sounds like you're actually referring to the ".tag" value for the nested (as&amp;nbsp;FileMetadata.media_info.metadata) "MediaMetadata" object, which would be one of "photo", "video".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:54:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385065#M21412</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-12-18T18:54:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Videos losing media_info in list_folder</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385198#M21421</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thank you for the explanation Greg. I gather this means that metadata now needs to be retrieved per individual file? This does increase the latency somewhat significantly i assume? I have for instance a number of folders containing a collection of video files, before i issued a single lookup using list_folder with include_media_info set to true to retrieve information such as the length of the videos.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;When issuing separate get_metadata calls for each file, the time it takes to retrieve this on a folder increases from around 1 second to 4-5 seconds, i assume this also means that the load on the Dropbox side may increase accordingly. Is this the recommended approach from this point going forward?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:03:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385198#M21421</guid>
      <dc:creator>litemotiv</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-12-19T11:03:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Videos losing media_info in list_folder</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385245#M21424</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1243458"&gt;@litemotiv&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thanks for following up. Yes, you'll need to call&amp;nbsp;&lt;A class="attrlink" href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_metadata" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener noopener noreferrer" data-target-href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_metadata"&gt;/2/files/get_metadata&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;once per file for which you want to retrieve the media info. This is the recommended&amp;nbsp;approach now. Depending on your use case, this may unfortunately increase the overall latency. I'll be sure to pass this along as feedback.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:08:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Videos-losing-media-info-in-list-folder/m-p/385245#M21424</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-12-19T15:08:14Z</dc:date>
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