I'm excited to announce Dropbox webhooks, a way for server-side apps to get real-time notifications about file changes in Dropbox. Client-side applications have already been able to get low-latency notifications via longpoll_delta or the built-in notifications in the Sync API. Webhooks give this same ability to server-side apps, eliminating the need for polling. In general, a webhook is a way for
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