title: Dropbox API - Sharing folders
body: <p>Dropbox makes it really easy to share folders and their contents with others and to control their access rights.  However, from what I can tell this capability is reduced to a "share link" (which turns out to be a read-only link) if the folder happens to be an "App" folder.  However, there appears to be a simple way around this - instead of restricting the API token permission to a single folder you simply set permission type to "Full Dropbox" and bingo - you can share folders.</p>
  
  <p>Whilst the Dropbox API console and web consoles do not appear to complain when I do this I have not then gone one step further and tested that </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The users with whom I share folders in this way do indeed have read write access</li>
  <li>I can track changes to shared folders via the Dropbox API using web hooks</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I'd be most obliged to anyone who has been here already who might be able to clarify.</p>