Delete, Download, and Search Files

In this lesson, we’ll look at three important endpoints that will help us delete, download, and search files from Dropbox. These endpoint operations are the following:

• delete
• download
• search_v2

Delete a file or a folder

The files/delete_v2 endpoint deletes a file or a folder from a specified location. If we provide a path to a folder, then all of its content will also be deleted. It requires us to enable the permission files.content.write to perform this action.

Let’s delete the DestFolder that we created with the copy_v2 endpoint.

Request parameters

Let’s take a look at the request parameters, descriptions, and formats in the table below.