Is there a way to use the Dropbox API to list docs in a Paper folder?
There isn't a way to list all Paper documents in a specific folder directly, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
The closest thing is to use /2/paper/docs/list[/continue], which let you list all of the Paper documents the user has either accessed (filter_by=docs_accessed) or created (filter_by=docs_created).
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I need to get a list of all publicly-visible Quip documents in my company using the Quip API. I have a service worker account that will make the API calls.
My question: how do I find the root folder to start from?
Quip's API docs tell you how to get info about one or more folders using Get Folders by passing in the folder ids. You can call this again for nested folders, and you can call Get Threads to get information about each document. (Quip uses the terminology "threads," not "documents.")
But where do I start? I need a root folder to start recursing from, right.
Here's what I've tried:
The Get Folders docs say "To find your desktop or archive folder ID, see Get Authenticated User." I've tried that but it returns folders called Desktop, Archive, Starred, Private, Shared, and Group.
Desktop seemed like a good place to start but its only child is Archive, and...
Archive only contains a couple dozen docs. The meaning of the Archive folder is not documented.
Starred is docs you've favorited.
Private is your private docs.
Shared is docs that have been shared with you.
Group seemed promising because the Folders UI at quip.com/browse shows the word "Group Folders" at the top. But my account's Group Folder list is empty.
A bit late to this, but since the QUIP API is poorly maintained and not well documented, for those looking to solve the same problem, here is one way:
Step 1: Add your company's root folder to your favorite (Starred folder), and drag it to the top of the favorite list.
Step 2: Get you authenticated instance:
quip_client = quip.QuipClient(access_token=login_token)
user = quip_client.get_authenticated_user()
print (user)
You will retrieve a json result with basic information like name, id... and most importantly the starred_folder_id for the user.
Step 3: Pass the starred_folder_id to the get_folder method:
print (quip_client.get_folder("starred_folder_id"))
You will receive yet another json with a key named as children which contains values of your starred folders/files in the order it appears on your quip app. The first folder_id will be your company folder id.
You can now use the folder_id to retrieve the rest of your company documents by more get_folder.
Do any of the major online photo storage/sharing platforms offer a reasonable way to export a set of image URLs and titles as something like a CSV or fetch them as JSON from a REST API?
I am trying to get any sort of clean list of title, url value pairs for all the images in a particular folder or gallery.
Google Drive/Photos would be my prefered platform, but I would switch to DropBox or other service if I could easily get such an export list.
If you're going to use Google Drive, you'll probably end up using these properties from File Resource:
webViewLink - a link for opening the file in a relevant Google editor
or
webContentLink - a link for downloading the content of the file in a
browser.
You can fetch this properties using files.list or files.get.
For Dropbox, you would use the /2/files/list_folder[/continue] endpoints to list the desired files:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder-continue
Then, you can use /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings to create shared links for the desired files:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-create_shared_link_with_settings
Or, to retrieve existing shared links, use /2/sharing/list_shared_links:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_shared_links
Those are links to the documentation for the HTTPS endpoints themselves, but we recommend using one of the official SDKs if possible:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation
Those have corresponding native methods for the HTTPS endpoints.
Is there a way to get URL of an ortho image using dronedeploy api? I can see that Image.get can give me image or an array of the images?
Thanks
The best way to retrieve and ortho via the API currently is through the Export API. This will require either a webserver, or an email scraper since the export link will be sent to email and/or webhook.
Additionally, you can list existing exports and if the user has already generated an ortho, either use the first ortho you find, or present a list to the user to select. Then use the download link in the ortho object to retrieve it.
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I need to upload bulk pictures and get each of their links to share it. The link is not standard in dropbox.
Lets say I have two pictures, their names: 1.jpg and 2.jpg
I want to get standard links like:
http://www.dropbox.com/1.jpg,
http://www.dropbox.com/2.jpg
is there any way to do it?
Thanks
You can use the Dropbox API to get or create shared links for files. Specifically, you can use /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings to create a shared link for a file or folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-create_shared_link_with_settings
Or you can use /2/sharing/list_shared_links to get existing shared links:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_shared_links
There are also corresponding methods in the SDKs if you're using one:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation
Current Dropbox API searchFileNames() allows the searching of a query / substring, so if I wanted to look for filenames in a folder that were of a specific extension such as ".jpg", that works, but if I combine to look for ".jpg .png" I get nothing returned... as the documentation states 'A file matches only if it contains all the substrings.'
Is there another API that will allow a union of the searched vs the exclusion?
Thanks
No, the Dropbox API doesn't enable you to search for multiple file extensions at once like this, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.
As a workaround, you can split this into multiple API calls.