Get Notified when a file changes on dropbox

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Gandalf picture Gandalf · Mar 9, 2012 · Viewed 28.6k times · Source

Does dropbox have a way of notifying when a file changes i.e arrival of new uploads or a file has changed.

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Kannan Goundan picture Kannan Goundan · Jun 8, 2012

Though you will still have to poll, there's a relatively new API endpoint called /delta that will let you poll much more efficiently than the /metadata endpoint.

It's better than using the RSS feed.

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