---
title: "Update Folder Sharing"
method: PUT
path: "/folders/{folderId}/sharings/{sharingId}"
tags: ["Folder Sharings"]
---

# Update Folder Sharing

`PUT /folders/{folderId}/sharings/{sharingId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.wistia.com/modern`
- URL: `https://api.wistia.com/modern/folders/{folderId}/sharings/{sharingId}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Updates a sharing on a folder.

## Requires api token with one of the following permissions
```
Read, update & delete anything
```

Tokens with the "Act with a team member's permissions" permission
(`all:delegate_to_contact_permissions` scope) can also be used. Requests
made with such a token are authorized using the permissions of the
contact assigned to the token.

An [expiring access token](https://docs.wistia.com/reference/post_expiring-token)
created with the `all:delegate_to_contact_permissions` scope and an
authorization granting the `update` permission on this folder can also
be used.

## Path parameters

- `folderId` string, required
- `sharingId` string, required

## Headers

- `X-Wistia-API-Version` string, required

## Request body

- object
  - `sharing` object
    - `canShare` boolean: Allow the user or group to share the folder with others.
    - `canDownload` boolean: Allow the user or group to download media from the folder.
    - `canUpload` boolean: Allow the user or group to upload media to the folder.
    - `isAdmin` boolean: Give this user admin rights to the folder.

## Response `200`

Sharing updated successfully

- object: A sharing is an object that links either a contact or a contact group to a folder, including information about the contacts' permissions to that folder.
  - `id` integer, required
  - `is_admin` boolean, required
  - `can_share` boolean, required
  - `can_download` boolean, required
  - `can_upload` boolean, required
  - `share` object, required
    - `id` integer, required
    - `name` string, required
    - `type` string, required
    - `email` string, email
  - `folder` object, required
    - `id` integer, required
    - `name` string, required
  - `cursor` string, nullable: A cursor for stable pagination based on current `sort_by` order. You can pass this to `cursor[before]` or `cursor[after]` as a parameter to fetch the records before or after this record in the same sort order. This is only populated if records were fetched with `cursor[enabled]`, or `cursor[before]` or `cursor[after]`.

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized, invalid or missing token
- `403`: Forbidden, token is valid but account does not have access to feature
- `404`: Resource not found
- `500`: Internal server error

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `b86cb2a7b420`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/wistia/apis/data-api/changes/folders/:folderId/sharings/:sharingId/put.md)

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