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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:
Thx
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.
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