Dropbox paper won’t allow writing in offline mode, that is okay, as they have some advanced features like collaborating a doc with other peoples and showing real-time changes to everyone who have access to the document. Paper is a free product from Dropbox Dropbox Paper is more than a doc—it’s a co-editing tool that brings creation and coordination together in one place.
[Update: retirement of the legacy Paper API has moved from September, 2020, to Q2 of 2021. Create and Update calls are now available for .paper files in the filesystem.]
Paper API to Paper in the Dropbox API Migration Guide
Starting in September 25 2019, new Paper users will see Paper docs they create as .paper files alongside their Dropbox content in the filesystem. This is part of an effort to ensure consistency with where Dropbox and Paper content are stored, and their associated sharing and permissions.
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As part of this change, any existing /paper/ API endpoints that interact directly with Paper content won’t work for new users whose Paper content is stored alongside their Dropbox content. Instead, the associated /files/ or /sharing/ equivalent API endpoint should be used to interact with a user’s Paper content. Read on for a full list of API endpoints that you should start using to fetch this new .paper file type.
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A few other things to note:
- This change will not affect existing Paper users so you can still use /paper/ endpoints to work with Paper docs created by existing Paper users.
- Your app can support both new and existing users as long as you use the appropriate endpoints for a given user.
- We’ll eventually retire the Paper API by Q2 2021.
The following timeline and guide will help you migrate from using /paper/ endpoints to their equivalent /files/ endpoints to work with a user’s Paper docs in the Dropbox file system:
Dropbox Paper Vs Google Docs
Dates | Planned changes | How you should prepare |
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September 25th, 2019 | - New Paper users will see Paper docs they create as .paper files alongside their other Dropbox content. - There won’t be any change to new docs created by existing Paper users. Over the coming months, we’ll offer a way for existing users to migrate their docs to .paper files and will eventually migrate all users in Q2 2021. Once migrations begin, you can check the state of a user (i.e. where their created Paper docs are stored) by calling /users/features/get_values. | - Start using the Dropbox API to fetch Paper docs that are in a user’s filesystem. - If your app already uses the Dropbox API to fetch a user’s files, you’ll start seeing .paper files for any Paper docs created by a Dropbox account on or after September 25. Read more about the behavior and limitations of .paper files and other online-only files in this blog post. |
Q2, 2021 | - The Paper API will be retired. - The /paper/archive endpoint will not have a Dropbox API equivalent, so you won’t be able to programmatically archive Paper docs. | - Ensure that your app uses the Dropbox API to interact with your users’ Paper docs. |