Permissions to retrieve note's metadata only

[Dmitry Zhlobo 0]

We synchronize documents from our app to Evernote and constantly update notes if document is changed in our system.

Before we try to update a note we request the note from API in order to check whether 1) it was deleted; 2) it was modified:

note = self.note_store.getNote(
	cached_metadata["guid"],
	withContent=False,
	withResourcesData=False,
	withResourcesRecognition=False,
	withResourcesAlternateData=False,
)

if note.deleted:
	raise exceptions.NotFoundError()

if note.contentHash != cached_metadata.get("content_hash"):
	raise exceptions.ConflictError()

It means users authorize us to "retrieve notes" which is not optimal: I don't want to store tokens that has access to all user notes and I don't want users to authorize us for it.

Is there a way to do what we do without having "retrieve notes" permissions associated with our tokens?

I was thinking about updating document without checking whether it was deleted and rely on exceptions but haven't found good documentation on it.
I was thinking maybe I can pass note content hash during update or an USN as described in API reference (https://dev.evernote.com/doc/reference/NoteStore.html#Fn_NoteStore_updateNoteIfUsnMatches) but again, it's not well documented for python SDK.
 

[gazumped 12,066]

Hi.  We're mainly users here - have you tried https://help.evernote.com/hc/requests/new ?  They're a bit busy right now...