cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Announcements
If you’ve changed your email address, now's the perfect time to update it on your Dropbox account and we’re here to help! Learn more here.

Dropbox API Support & Feedback

Find help with the Dropbox API from other developers.

cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Endpoint to get email address of the shared files and folders of dropbox user

Endpoint to get email address of the shared files and folders of dropbox user

venkateshVenkat
Explorer | Level 3

I am searching for an endpoint which returns the email address of the Dropbox user who shares a file or folder? Could you let me know whether we have an endpoint for that in Dropbox API


3 Replies 3

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff

If you get the 'account_id' for a shared member, e.g., as returned from /2/sharing/list_folder_members[/continue], you can then use that value to get the account information from /2/users/get_account.

venkateshVenkat
Explorer | Level 3

Suppose if we share a file or some one shares a file with us. Is it possible to get their email address?

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff

It sounds like you're referring to the "shared file" type of sharing covered by /2/sharing/list_received_files[/continue] in particular. No, the Dropbox API doesn't list the owner or recipient for this kind of sharing, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. 

Need more support?
Who's talking

Top contributors to this post

  • User avatar
    Greg-DB Dropbox Staff
  • User avatar
    venkateshVenkat Explorer | Level 3
What do Dropbox user levels mean?