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mesqueeb
mesqueeb

Reputation: 6324

How to access (read/write) advanced file EXIF/metadata in the Dropbox JavaScript API?

How to access (read/write) advanced file metadata in the Dropbox JavaScript API?

I'm talking about things like e.g.: MacOS file tags. Or the camera model inside the EXIF data.

Please note that dbx.filesGetMetadata(arg) does not provide very detailed metadata... Almost only dropbox specific metadata actually.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 791

Answers (1)

mesqueeb
mesqueeb

Reputation: 6324

Kudos to Greg.

The Dropbox API unfortunately doesn't natively return Mac OS file metadata/xattrs, or the full EXIF information for a file. The Dropbox API currently only natively returns a few pieces of basic media information in FilesFileMetadata.media_info, e.g., if you set FilesGetMetadataArg.include_media_info to true when calling filesGetMetadata or filesListFolder/filesListFolderContinue.

To get any other metadata embedded in the file content, you'll need to download the file content and parse it out client-side.

Upvotes: 1

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