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Augusto
Augusto

Reputation: 115

Dropbox Python API: dropbox.rest.ErrorResponse: [404] u"Path '<path>' not found"

Having successfully run the 'Getting started with Core API for Python', I'm now attempting to print a file's shared link by doing:

def get_file_information(self, file_path):
     file_info = client.DropboxClient(self.sess)
     print file_info.share(file_path)

I've tried passing:

file_path = '/Users/augustoesteves/Dropbox/DSCN7334.mov'
file_path = '/Dropbox/DSCN7334.mov'
file_path = '/DSCN7334.mov'

But I always get:

dropbox.rest.ErrorResponse: [404] u"Path '/Users/augustoesteves/Dropbox/DSCN7334.mov' not found"
dropbox.rest.ErrorResponse: [404] u"Path 'Dropbox/DSCN7334.mov' not found"
dropbox.rest.ErrorResponse: [404] u"Path 'DSCN7334.mov' not found"

I must be doing something embarrassingly stupid, but I can't figure it out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 778

Answers (1)

Pavel Strakhov
Pavel Strakhov

Reputation: 40492

Dropbox expects the request url to be in the form: https://api.dropbox.com/1/shares/<root>/<path> where root is either dropbox or sandbox and path if the file path. The share() method of Python API constructs the request url in the form: 

path = "/shares/%s%s" % (self.session.root, format_path(path))

self.session.root is set depending on access_type value passed to the session constructor:

self.root = 'sandbox' if access_type == 'app_folder' else 'dropbox'

So your 3rd url should be correct. Check your access_type and path. Try to construct full URL and send a request manually.

Upvotes: 2

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