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Required Scopes

To configure a Sync for Dropbox, you need to request the following scopes from your Dropbox OAuth application:
  • files.metadata.read
  • files.content.read
  • sharing.read
Learn more about configuring scopes for your app in Adding Integrations.

Synced Objects

Dropbox supports the following Synced Objects:
  • Files

    Dropbox Paper documents will be synced as HTML files.

    All other files will be available in their original format.

  • Permissions

Files

Send a request to Enable Sync to start a file sync. Syncs for Dropbox can be created with one of the following configurations:
  • Global Sync: All files in the user’s Dropbox account will be synced.
  • Folder Sync: Only files in the specified folder will be synced (recursively including all subfolders).
  • Sync of specific files: Only a group of specific files will be synced.
  • Global Sync
  • Folder Sync
  • Sync of specific files
Example
{
    "integration": "dropbox",
    "pipeline": "files",
    "configuration": {}
}
Configuration options:
orgWideSync
boolean
Set to true if using a Dropbox Team account. This will sync group permissions for folders and files.
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