Dropbox API v2 launches

No love after begging for an administration API for 2+ years.<p>At this point they should start putting some spin on it.<p>&quot;Help your company employ more people. Dropbox for Business&#x27;s lack of administration tools will grow your headcount. When you see your admins waiting for a list of users to load, or trying to write their own tools based on scraping the website, feel good about how you&#x27;re fighting unemployment.&quot;

Hey if anyone from Dropbox is monitoring these comments: nice work, but there&#x27;s something missing that I&#x27;ve been waiting for: API access to comments.<p>I&#x27;d love to recommend using the new Dropbox comments feature but I can&#x27;t until I know there is a way of getting that data out after putting it in. I&#x27;m not entering metadata into a system that doesn&#x27;t have fully programmable export. Been burned too many times.<p>Pretty please?

So is this the API for clients or for servers?<p>I would like my web server to be able to slurp up all the images from my customer&#x27;s Dropbox. Unfortunately, shared folders can&#x27;t be downloaded if they are larger than 2Gb, which is quite often for me.<p>Is there an API suitable for this?<p>EDIT: oh yes, yes there is! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;developers&#x2F;chooser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;developers&#x2F;chooser</a><p>EDIT 2: It would be sweet if you guys also exposed SHA2 hash of the files in Choser. Often times they user will mistakenly load the same file, and I would rather not do the work at all if I don&#x27;t have to.

One thing I cannot understand is that Dropbox API does not provide any kind of hash for files (in both v1 and v2). In contrast, Amazon Cloud Drive and Google Drive provides md5 hash, and OneDrive provides sha1Hash and crc32Hash. The lack of hash info makes custom app to compare and upload local files extremely painful.

Love the layout of the API Explorer. Makes it easy to see exactly what is being requested.

Is there an accessible description of the API? i.e., what&#x27;s driving the &quot;code generation process&quot;? Is that open and something I could use to generate a client for &lt;insert my favorite language here&gt;?

The Dropbox Badge thing looks neat [1] but I don&#x27;t see any indication of an open API so that non-Microsoft applications can take advantage of it. Does anyone know if there are any plans for that?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;7670" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;7670</a>

&quot;There are currently four SDKs for API v2: Swift, Python, .NET, and Java.&quot; And a structured, non-REST API.<p>Aw. All grown up.

A simple POST based API? What is this blasphemy?

Love the new features. I was hoping to see the ability to programmatically create File Requests. Looks like it might still be a while before it gets implemented.

Why would they choose RPC style endpoints over REST?

Sample app link here is broken <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dropbox&#x2F;dropbox-sdk-python&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;example&#x2F;back-up-and-restore&#x2F;backup-and-restore-sample.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dropbox&#x2F;dropbox-sdk-python&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ex...</a>

So could one use this to manage encrypted files stored in Dropbox?

Is the Dropbox client fully open source yet? I won&#x27;t use a spying tool that hires international spies to be on the board if they continue to be closed-source and intent on spying. Their new SDKs seem to be open source - why not their main client product?

Can I programmatically edit .xls files over the API? That would be great.