API: Folder and Recursive search for File or Folder by name (and by extension)?

[jeff00coder]

Good day,

Through the main user console of an Dropbox account, one can search for files by name:

https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/sort-preview/search

It is not clear looking at the API documentation if it possible via API to search for a file (by name or extension) and for a Folder (by name)?

Search either:

• Only within a specific Folder (not recursive) given Path or ID?
• Recursively from a Folder given Path or ID?

Thx

[Greg-DB]

The Dropbox API does offer the ability to programmatically search in the connected account, with a number of different options. You can find more information in the documentation here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-search

You can specify the query, such as a file or folder name or file extension, that you want to search for you in the "query" parameter. 

You can also restrict the search to a particular path using the "path" parameter under the "options" field, specifying either path or ID.

It's not currently possible to request non-recursive search, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.