Dropbox Business API
Dropbox ships a first-class public REST API (v2) with OAuth 2.0, granular scopes, webhooks, and official SDKs in six languages. Signup is self-serve from the App Console. Business and Team scopes require app review; until approved an app is capped at about 50 users.
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Dropbox Business scores A on the API Report Card. Dropbox ships a first-class public REST API (v2) with OAuth 2.0, granular scopes, webhooks, and official SDKs in six languages. Signup is self-serve from the App Console. Business and Team scopes require app review; until approved an app is capped at about 50 users.
Dropbox Business has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Dropbox Business is the team/enterprise tier of Dropbox, Inc. (NASDAQ: DBX), a publicly traded SaaS company headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi.
Vertical: misc / horizontal, Dropbox Business is a cross-industry cloud file storage, collaboration, and (via Dropbox Sign/DocSend) lightweight Document Management / eSignature platform. Shared team folders for active project files (CAD/BIM in construction, RAW/PSD/INDD in creative, contracts/working papers in legal/accounting, lecture material in education).
Very high. Dropbox is one of the most ubiquitous SaaS brands globally: 700M+ registered users, 18M+ paying users, 300K+ third-party app integrations on the Dropbox Platform, and ~50B API calls per month flowing through the Developer Platform per dropbox.com/developers.
Data that flows through Dropbox Business on behalf of customers (and that would matter for any integration Supergood might build): File binaries and metadata, every file uploaded by a team: name, path, size, content hash, mtime, MIME, version history, deletion state, rev id, sharing state.
Founded 2007; IPO March 2018 (NYSE→NASDAQ: DBX). Architecturally modern: Dropbox runs its own custom storage stack ("Magic Pocket") on hundreds of petabytes of self-managed infrastructure, with multi-region replication and erasure coding.
All endpoint-specific errors return HTTP 409 with a tagged-union error in the body, which breaks naive HTTP-status-based error handling. Rate limits are not published as a single hard number; developers must discover thresholds by hitting 429s, with `Retry-After` jitter required. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Microsoft OneDrive / SharePoint, Google Drive (Google Workspace), Box, Citrix ShareFile, Egnyte, Sync.com. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.