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jsimonac
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

files/download API cannot find any files in any shares

My company has several applications that interact with the Dropbox API via the python sdk. At some point in the last few weeks, these applications have stopped being able to download files. Neither t...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    6 months ago

    It sounds like your team may have recently migrated to the updated team space configuration, in which case your team-owned content would now be in your team space.

     

    By default, API calls to the Dropbox API operate in the "member folder" of the connected account, not the "team space". That means that by default, the contents of the team space will not be found.

     

    You can configure API calls to operate in the "team space" instead though, in order to interact with files/folders in the team space. To do so, you'll need to set the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header. You can find information on how to use this in the Team Files Guide.