Sharing

Collection can be shared with other users, which are then called collaborators, and this section describes the different commands that are related to sharing.

Collaborators

Every user who shares at least one collection with another user, has a collaborators record in the API response. The record contains a restricted subset of user-specific fields.

Field	Description
_id	User ID of the collaborator
email	Email of the collaborator Empty when authorized user have read-only access
email_MD5	MD5 hash of collaborator email. Useful for using with Gravatar for example
fullName	Full name of the collaborator
role	Access level: member have write access and can invite more users viewer read-only access

Share collection

POST https://api.raindrop.io/rest/v1/collection/{id}/sharing

Share collection with another user(s). As result invitation(s) will be send to specified email(s) with link to join collection.

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	number	Existing collection ID

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
role	string	Access level. Possible values: member viewer
emails	array	The user email(s) with whom to share the project. Maximum 10

200

{
    "result": true,
    "emails": [
        "[e-mail]",
        "[e-mail]"
    ]
}

400

//'emails' array is empty
{
    "result": false,
    "errorMessage": "no emails"
}

//'emails' array larger than 10
{
    "result": false,
    "errorMessage": "you cant send more than 10 invites at once"
}

403

//When user have more than 100 pending invitations:
{
    "result": false,
    "errorMessage": "you have too many pending invitations, you will be banned if you continue send more"
}

//User doesn't have enought permissions to invite more people
{
    "result": false,
    "errorMessage": "you dont have permissions to invite more people"
}

Get collaborators list of collection

GET https://api.raindrop.io/rest/v1/collection/{id}/sharing

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	number	Existing collection ID

200

{
  "items": [
    {
      "_id": 373381,
      "email": "[e-mail]",
      "email_MD5": "e12bda18ca265d3f3e30d247adea2549",
      "fullName": "Jakie Future",
      "registered": "2019-08-18T17:01:43.664Z",
      "role": "viewer"
    }
  ],
  "result": true
}

Unshare or leave collection

DELETE https://api.raindrop.io/rest/v1/collection/{id}/sharing

There two possible results of calling this method, depends on who authenticated user is: - Owner: collection will be unshared and all collaborators will be removed - Member or viewer: authenticated user will be removed from collaborators list

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	number	Existing collection ID

200

{
    "result": true
}

Change access level of collaborator

PUT https://api.raindrop.io/rest/v1/collection/{id}/sharing/{userId}

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
userId	number	User ID of collaborator
id	number	Existing collection ID

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
role	string	member or viewer

200

{
    "result": true
}

Delete a collaborator

DELETE https://api.raindrop.io/rest/v1/collection/{id}/sharing/{userId}

Remove an user from shared collection

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
userId	number	User ID of collaborator
id	number	Existing collection ID

200

{
    "result": true
}

Accept an invitation

POST https://api.raindrop.io/rest/v1/collection/{id}/join

Accept an invitation to join a shared collection

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	number	Existing collection ID

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
token	string	Secret token from email

200

{
    "result": true,
    "role": "member"
}

403

//Incorrect token
{
    "result": false,
    "error": "CollaboratorsIncorrectToken",
    "errorMessage": "Incorrect or expired token"
}

//Collection no more exists
{
    "result": false,
    "error": "CollaboratorsNoCollection",
    "errorMessage": "Shared collection not found or removed"
}

{
    "result": false,
    "error": "CollaboratorsAlready",
    "errorMessage": "You already owner of this collection"
}