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Didstopia
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Search endpoint returning 500 internal server error
This same API has been working solidly for years, but now in the past 2-ish days it has been returning more and more errors.
Sometimes it works for quite a while, but sometimes it keeps erroring fo...
- 5 years ago
This should be resolved now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks!
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for the information!
Greg-DB
5 years agoDropbox Staff
This should be resolved now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks!
- Didstopia5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
The errors actually "magically" went away about 24+ hours after reporting it.
Can you give any details as to what was wrong and if anything was actually fixed?I'm also wondering if it was caused by the legacy permissions/scopes, which I migrated to the new system, so if this was actually what fixed it, but just rolled out slowly/took a day to apply?
- Greg-DB5 years agoDropbox Staff
Thanks for confirming! This was an issue with the search backend that the engineering team worked to resolve. This wasn't related to the scopes migration.
- jenkinspps4 years agoNew member | Level 2
Is it possible that this issue has happened again?
My nightly script began failing on the 8th of December with error 500 Internal Server Error when accessing https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search.
The same script has been running successfully for months.
Thanks in advance for any information or advice.
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