Folder download

I think this would be nice resource saving feature.  I've seen all kinds of recursive download scripts that basically inundate the dropbox API with requests for each individual file.  Seems rather inefficient.   Thanks.

Here is a workaround, you can create a sharedlink for that folder

curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/share_folder \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $TK" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"path": "/legacy/teste-curl","acl_update_policy": "editors","force_async": true,"member_policy": "anyone"}'

then download it using the preview_url

wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/sh/{shared_link_id}?dl=1

Like this example

wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j1msw4e8dup2c5q/AAANYUWXcyBDgxVGkveU7AFla?dl=1

After all you can unshare this folder for security reasons

curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/unshare_folder \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $TK" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data "{\"shared_folder_id\": \"1896934208\",\"leave_a_copy\": false}"

This is nice thanks. I was also trying to decipher the download call through web client but it got a bit hairy.   The zip file comes from 

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/zip_batch?_subject_uid=<dropbox id>

  but I could not figure out in developers tools panel what all the POST parameters were.

Hi Greg

This is good news. thanks for the update to the API.

I just tried this API call and it worked great.

the only hiccup is an error when trying to d/l the root folder

"Dropbox-API-Arg": path: The root folder is unsupported

some files are saved in the application's root folder and the method seems to fail to get them zipped up

That's the expected behavior. Downloading the root folder is not supported unfortunately, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.