Create Folder

Deprecated

POST

https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/create_folder

POST

/2/files/create_folder

import requests
url = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/create_folder"
payload = { "path": "/Homework/math" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

Response headers

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Dropbox-Request-Id: string

{
  "id": "id:a4ayc_80_OEAAAAAAAAAXz",
  "name": "math",
  "path_display": "/Homework/math",
  "path_lower": "/homework/math",
  "property_groups": [
    {
      "fields": [
        {
          "name": "Security Policy",
          "value": "Confidential"
        }
      ],
      "template_id": "ptid:1a5n2i6d3OYEAAAAAAAAAYa"
    }
  ],
  "sharing_info": {
    "read_only": false,
    "parent_shared_folder_id": "84528192421"
  }
}

Create a folder at a given path.

Required scope: files.content.write

Endpoint format: RPC

Authentication: User, Dropbox-API-Select-Admin (Team Admin)

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

OAuth 2.0 token issued to a specific user. Use Authorization: Bearer <token>.

Public clients should use the authorization code flow with PKCE (S256).

For background or offline access, send token_access_type=offline during authorization and use the returned refresh token to obtain new access tokens.

You can generate a short-lived access token from the App Console; see Testing with a generated token.

Headers

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

pathstringRequiredformat: "(/(.|[\r\n])*)|(ns:[0-9]+(/(.|[\r\n])*)?)"

Path in the user's Dropbox to create.

autorenamebooleanOptionalDefaults to false

If there's a conflict, have the Dropbox server try to autorename the folder to avoid the conflict.

Response headers

X-Dropbox-Request-IdstringOptional

A unique identifier for the request, useful for debugging and support.

Response

Successful response

idstring>=1 character

A unique identifier for the folder.

namestring

The last component of the path (including extension). This never contains a slash.

path_displaystring or nullOptional

The cased path to be used for display purposes only. In rare instances the casing will not correctly match the user’s filesystem, but this behavior will match the path provided in the Core API v1, and at least the last path component will have the correct casing. Changes to only the casing of paths won’t be returned by list_folder/continue. This field will be null if the file or folder is not mounted.

path_lowerstring or nullOptional

The lowercased full path in the user's Dropbox. This always starts with a slash. This field will be null if the file or folder is not mounted.

preview_urlstring or nullOptional

The preview URL of the file.

property_groupslist of objects or nullOptional

Additional information if the file has custom properties with the property template specified. Note that only properties associated with user-owned templates, not team-owned templates, can be attached to folders.

sharing_infoobject or nullOptional

Set if the folder is contained in a shared folder or is a shared folder mount point.

parent_shared_folder_idstring or nullOptionalformat: "[-_0-9a-zA-Z:]+"Deprecated

Please use FileSharingInfo.parent_shared_folder_id or FolderSharingInfo.parent_shared_folder_id instead.

shared_folder_idstring or nullOptionalformat: "[-_0-9a-zA-Z:]+"Deprecated

Please use sharing_info instead.

Errors

401

Unauthorized Error

403

Forbidden Error

409

Conflict Error

429

Too Many Requests Error

500

Internal Server Error