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Andrey_Golub1
Explorer | Level 3

Is there any way to find out who modified or created the file using Dropbox API?

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20

Hi @Andrey_Golub1,

Doesn't get_metadata work for you? Take a look on sharing_info.modified_by when result is FileMetadata type (i.e. ".tag": "file").

Hope this helps.

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff

@Andrey_Golub1 As Ð—дравко mentioned, you can get the information about who last modified a file from the FileMetadata.sharing_info.modified_by information returned by /2/files/get_metadata (or elsewhere, such as /2/files/list_folder[/continue]). 

The Dropbox API doesn't return information about which user originally created a particular file, 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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