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Hell,
I am a long time Dropbox paid user and I`ve decided to convert propietary notes to Dropbox Paper documents on my phone.
Unable to find import function I created simple program to do just that.
Here is my experience with it:
Question
Given the state of API, is Paper is still a PoC project and might go out of production soon or should rely on it being improved in future?
Thanks for the detailed feedback! We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with the API. I'm sending these specific pieces of feedback and feature requests along to the team.
To address a few points in particular:
And in response to your question, I don't have any news to share regarding the Paper API in general. Dropbox will announce any significant changes if/when there is something to share though.
Hello Greg, thanks for reply!
> API sometimes throws 500 Internal Server Error but still creates doc
Example ID with 500 Internal Server Error.
"x-dropbox-request-id":["f25fd3b330d2e7c768f53df00be859bf"]
Example code: https://pastebin.com/i3kEYRfU
The amount of documents I upload is ~100 and I sometimes get error in the middle of upload, however documents still created.
> No ID of document
Yes there is an API but Dropbox.paperDocsDownload() return result PaperDocExportResult which does not contain document ID.
Is there any way to fetch all metadata of documents without content download? I don`t need a document, just a title and an ID.
Thanks.
As a resolution there is 2 serious issues I would consider to prioritize.
1. Deleted documents visible through API. This is a showstopper as it does not give ability to fix import mistakes.
2. No way to filter documents by a folder when fetching a list of documents. And there is no folder_id in document metadata. Ugh. This makes folders invisible to API (except when creating).
Thanks!
For the folder information, there is /2/paper/docs/get_folder_info, but that does require one call per Paper doc, so I can see that being inefficient for some use cases. I've sent this along as a feature request for a better solution.
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