Excel Dropbox: Dropbox List Contents of Folder

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Starts returning the contents of a folder. If the result's ListFolderResult.has_more field is true, call list_folder/continue with the returned ListFolderResult.cursor to retrieve more entries.

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

CURL Command

curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer DROPBOX-ACCESS-TOKEN" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data "{\"path\": \"/Homework/math\",\"recursive\": false,\"include_media_info\": false,\"include_deleted\": false,\"include_has_explicit_shared_members\": false,\"include_mounted_folders\": true}"

Excel Example

Dim rest As Chilkat.Rest
Set rest = Chilkat.NewRest

'  URL: https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder

bTls = True

port = 443

bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("api.dropboxapi.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print "ConnectFailReason: "; rest.ConnectFailReason
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  See the Online Tool for Generating JSON Creation Code
Dim json As Chilkat.JsonObject
Set json = Chilkat.NewJsonObject
success = json.UpdateString("path","/Homework/math")
success = json.UpdateBool("recursive",False)
success = json.UpdateBool("include_media_info",False)
success = json.UpdateBool("include_deleted",False)
success = json.UpdateBool("include_has_explicit_shared_members",False)
success = json.UpdateBool("include_mounted_folders",True)

success = rest.AddHeader("Authorization","Bearer DROPBOX-ACCESS-TOKEN")
success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json")

Dim sbRequestBody As Chilkat.StringBuilder
Set sbRequestBody = Chilkat.NewStringBuilder
success = json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
Dim sbResponseBody As Chilkat.StringBuilder
Set sbResponseBody = Chilkat.NewStringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/2/files/list_folder",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If


respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    Debug.Print "Response Status Code = "; respStatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response Header:"
    Debug.Print rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "Response Body:"
    Debug.Print sbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim jsonResponse As Chilkat.JsonObject
Set jsonResponse = Chilkat.NewJsonObject
success = jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)

'  See the Online Tool for Generating JSON Parse Code


cursor = jsonResponse.StringOf("cursor")

has_more = jsonResponse.BoolOf("has_more")
i = 0
count_i = jsonResponse.SizeOfArray("entries")
Do While i < count_i
    jsonResponse.I = i

    Tag = jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i]."".tag""")

    name = jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].name")

    path_lower = jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].path_lower")

    path_display = jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].path_display")

    id = jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].id")

    client_modified = jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].client_modified")

    server_modified = jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].server_modified")

    rev = jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].rev")

    size = jsonResponse.IntOf("entries[i].size")

    content_hash = jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].content_hash")
    i = i + 1
Loop

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "entries": [
    {
      ".tag": "file",
      "name": "Matrices.txt",
      "path_lower": "/homework/math/matrices.txt",
      "path_display": "/Homework/math/Matrices.txt",
      "id": "id:qk7WwvROeSAAAAAAAAAAAQ",
      "client_modified": "2016-06-02T20:41:02Z",
      "server_modified": "2016-06-02T20:41:03Z",
      "rev": "5482db15f",
      "size": 6,
      "content_hash": "5a3c776e2631edabe2ba710ac72301b3aeca821ba4f7d36b56cc6050ea6c2ba8"
    },
    {
      ".tag": "file",
      "name": "Document.docx",
      "path_lower": "/homework/math/document.docx",
      "path_display": "/Homework/math/Document.docx",
      "id": "id:JSXYsxHo1hAAAAAAAAAABw",
      "client_modified": "2018-10-22T21:59:23Z",
      "server_modified": "2018-10-22T21:59:23Z",
      "rev": "10482db15f",
      "size": 11009,
      "content_hash": "ab9c1887a653a8f42e4401425ac02839e1f76533e1d44ac8d0605d870a16c25d"
    }
  ],
  "cursor": "AAHnmmjY1IztwebFmkByuZ_Vgzz-tSYXYE3KhdkUxBfETpGjPqTBz7ZzBj1G7zkPPVanKCt0FtzqXjDQ2ggQKYZTiL4mJ346fRelmP049QjN5CZzeMHbD_lSFqA96Br36vR9YLg40VAHu42TcCG38MbUPOCKa-wdguu5C1JsgYvIaXIcjRMCfbxz98JdYhhefmu0pjoxtgtCstOrmp_pXIng",
  "has_more": false
}