Get local dropbox account info c#

Question

I have dropbox installed in my Windows 7 system. Is there any way to programmatically retrieve the user email linked with the local dropbox account? I am able to retrieve the folder location by scanning the host.db file in local application directory.

Answer 1

Yes ! you can programmatically retrieve the user email linked with the local dropbox account with the help of "/account/info".

/account/info

• DESCRIPTION : Retrieves information about the user's account.
• URL STRUCTURE: https://api.dropboxapi.com/1/account/info
• METHOD : GET
• PARAMETERS: locale - Use to specify language settings for user error messages and other language specific text. See the notes above for more information about supported locales.

• RETURNS : User account information.

  Sample JSON response { "uid": 12345678, "display_name": "John User", "name_details": { "familiar_name": "John", "given_name": "John", "surname": "User" }, "referral_link": "https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/r1a2n3d4m5s6t7", "country": "US", "locale": "en", "email": "john@example.com", "email_verified": false, "is_paired": false, "team": { "name": "Acme Inc.", "team_id": "dbtid:1234abcd" }, "quota_info": { "shared": 253738410565, "quota": 107374182400000, "normal": 680031877871 } }

Return value definitions

field description

• uid : The user's unique Dropbox ID.
• display_name : The user's display name.
• name_details/given_name : The user's given name.
• name_details/surname : The user's surname.
• name_details/familiar_name : The locale-dependent familiar name for the user.
• referral_link : The user's referral link.
• country : The user's two-letter country code, if available.
• locale : Locale preference set by the user (e.g. en-us).
• email : The user's email address.
• email_verified : If true, the user's email address has been verified to belong to that user.
• is_paired : If true, there is a paired account associated with this user.
• team : If the user belongs to a team, contains team information. Otherwise, null.
• team/name : The name of the team the user belongs to.
• eam/team_id : The ID of the team the user belongs to. quota_info/normal The user's used quota outside of shared folders (bytes).
• quota_info/shared : The user's used quota in shared folders (bytes). If the user belongs to a team, this includes all usage contributed to the team's quota outside of the user's own used quota (bytes).
• quota_info/quota : The user's total quota allocation (bytes). If the user belongs to a team, the team's total quota allocation (bytes).