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Ashley B.18's avatar
Ashley B.18
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9 years ago

https://api.dropbox.com/1/delta?include_media_info=False v1 null entry value

Hi, I've been using the following endpoint to return a users dropbox folders/files:  https://api.dropbox.com/1/delta?include_media_info=False I'm getting the following for 8 entries: ["/Folde...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Hi Ashley, the null metadata indicates that the item is deleted. You can find more information on this under the "delta entries" section of this endpoint's documentation:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/docs#delta

There's a blog post that shows some logic for this that may be helpful here:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/12/efficiently-enumerating-dropbox-with-delta/

Also, I should note that /1/delta is an API v1 endpoint, which is deprecated. The equivalent functionality in API v2 is /files/list_folder[/continue]:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder-continue

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