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Is there any unique identifier associated with a Dropbox file that doesn't change with revisions/changes/renaming, that can be accessed via the RESTful API? I want to store it in the database and keep track of some operations on the file.
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You can get the ID for a file or folder from the Metadata object for the file or folder, e.g., as returned by /2/files/get_metadata or /2/files/list_folder. If you want to download a file though, you should use /2/files/download (not /2/file_requests/get).
Metadata Storage at Dropbox. At Dropbox, we store most of our product metadata in an in-house one-size-fits-all database called Edgestore. Over time, however, small misalignments in values between Edgestore and the various product use cases it powers became increasingly problematic.
Go to the Dropbox App Console and log in (you need a Dropbox account to do this). Select Create App. After the app is created, you will be taken to the App's settings page for the app. Scroll to the OAuth 2 section, find the Generated access token section and click on Generate.
A Unique identifier (UID) is a positive long value, assigned to each message in a specific folder. Unique identifiers are assigned in a strictly ascending fashion in the mailbox. That is, as each message is added to the mailbox it is assigned a higher UID than the message(s) which were added previously.
Unfortunately, no, the Dropbox API does not currently expose any sort of file ID or hash like this.
Edit: The Dropbox API v2 does now offer file IDs that persist across moves/renames. You can find more information under "Path formats" in the documentation.
The file ID is available as the id field on the FileMetadata object, e.g., as returned by /files/get_metadata.
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