I would like to use the Chooser drop-in to select a file from dropbox and then synchronize my app with that file occasionally in the background.
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/chooser/js
A scenario would be:
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User selects file.
File uploads to my app.
User returns to my app a few days later after modifying the file in dropbox.
My app should synchronize and pull down that particular file (without again displaying the Chooser drop-in).
The problem is that the Chooser provides an expiring link to the file:
"direct" is an expiring link to download the contents of the file
I can use the Core API exclusively which would work, however I would have to build my own UI to browse the user's dropbox directory. Ideally, I'd prefer to not introduce the world to another file browser; Dropbox has a file browser - and people are familiar with it. Is this possible?
Thanks,
You can just get a preview link and convert it. See https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/53/programmatically-download-content-from-share-links.
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how to authincate dropbox login into a website then make the user choose files to import.
I have Dropbox Javascript SDK. I just wanna know what kind of options available to do that.
I'm thinking of
1- authenticate the account dropbox of the user and when he selects the folder to import someway I download the folder into the website's host
2- The user share the link of the folder and then I download it with Curl into the host
3- Or can I share a folder and preview the content of this folder into the website
Overall the biggest concern is to save duplicates Uploads.
What are options to do such a thing using JS SDK or PHP.
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I use Dropbox folder by setup Dropbox program in my computer
When I have to get direct link to any file in Dropbox folder just I go to Dropbox folder in my computer and choose that file and right click by mouse and select copy direct link of that file
How I do that by vb.net
I want to brows for file and select it and get that direct link by vb.net
And I am sorry for my bad English
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The kind of Dropbox link you're referring to isn't a "direct" link, but rather a "shared" link, where the link itself points to an HTML preview page, where the user can download the file if they want. You can find information on this feature here:
https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/view-only-access
Dropbox does offer an API you can use for listing, uploading, downloading, and sharing files, among other operations. You can find everything you need to get started with the Dropbox API, including documentation, tutorials, and SDKs here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers
Dropbox does offer a .NET SDK in particular:
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-dotnet
To create a shared link for a file or folder using the .NET SDK, you would use the CreateSharedLinkWithSettingsAsync method:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/M_Dropbox_Api_Sharing_Routes_SharingUserRoutes_CreateSharedLinkWithSettingsAsync_1.htm
I have clients uploading files directly to my Dropbox folder. I was curious if I can build a website form that uploads the file to my Dropbox folder and also saves the forms data to my server with a reference to the file that was uploaded to Dropbox? They are legal documents and I don't want to worry about security if Dropbox handles that.
It looks like it should definitely be possible.
You would have to use the dropbox api:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-js
There are some javascript examples that would likely be what you would need to go directly to dropbox without going to your server first.
Basically, what I would like to do is to create a link from a web application that will open a Dropbox file from appropriate Dropbox native app. Google Drive for example allows you to re-format the unique URL for a file such as https://docs.google.com/blablabla which you can retrieve from their API, into googledrive://docs.google.com/blablabla and lets you open the file in Google Drive native app.
I have tried dropbox:// URLs with no success, and have not found any existing conversation on this despite running cross multiple conversations on the same subject for Google Drive or Evernote. Please let me know if it is possible to somehow generate this via API or based on the folder structure etc.
Thanks!
I had created an iphone application witch can generate a pdf file when the user use the application.
how can the user have the option to sent the pdf file to his own dropbox?
I had tryed with dropbox examples: where i can make an api and upload to my own dropbox.
But it's not what i want.
I want my application to do so: when the user generates a pdf file, so the login box of dropbox apear so he can log in and upload the file automaticaly to his own dropbox.
I have google it, but i did't get any examples including this solution.
Please help me if you can.
Have you looked at this blog post that i think describes what you are looking for.
http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/working-with-dropbox/232600482?pgno=1