I am trying to access files stored on my Dropbox using the offical Dropbox SDK for Python.. I tried a few ways of putting in the directory name whose contents I wanted to have listed based off of a script taken from this link https://practicaldatascience.co.uk/data-science/how-to-use-the-dropbox-api-with-python. Following the instructions in this website, I created an App, generated a dropbox access token (which produced 'long-gibberish'), and gave myself read permissions for Files and Folders.
When I login to Dropbox through the website, the folder structure for the folder that I want to access looks like so: Folder/ SubFolder/ SubSubFolder.
I get the following error when calling the function:
dropbox_list_files('Folder/SubFolder/SubSubFolder')
Error getting list of files from Dropbox: ApiError('short-gibberish', ListFolderError('path', LookupError('not_found', None)))
DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN = 'long-gibberish'
def dropbox_connect():
"""Create a connection to Dropbox."""
try:
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN)
except AuthError as e:
print('Error connecting to Dropbox with access token: ' + str(e))
return dbx
def dropbox_list_files(path):
"""Return a Pandas dataframe of files in a given Dropbox folder path in the Apps directory.
"""
dbx = dropbox_connect()
try:
files = dbx.files_list_folder(path).entries
files_list = []
for file in files:
if isinstance(file, dropbox.files.FileMetadata):
metadata = {
'name': file.name,
'path_display': file.path_display,
'client_modified': file.client_modified,
'server_modified': file.server_modified
}
files_list.append(metadata)
df = pd.DataFrame.from_records(files_list)
return df.sort_values(by='server_modified', ascending=False)
except Exception as e:
print('Error getting list of files from Dropbox: ' + str(e))
I would like to get some help on how to set the right path.
