I am building application which I want to be synced to a cloud (skydrive, dropbox or google drive). Means it can upload freely to the cloud files to a cloud folder (for example, I want to upload doc.rtf to folder "my documents/example" at the cloud) and download from it by file name and path (in the cloud). Is it possible, and if it's possible - how can I do it? If I need a libary or a dll to do it, please write only free libary or dll.
For dropbox I think the REST API should be the way to go >> DropBox API
For Skydrive this might be useful >> SkyDrive .Net API Client
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I need to implement same thing like whatsapp storing all chat history to google drive on clicking on backup button in app. And same restore it in new device as required.
I have look for below references for implementing this, but some how I was not able to do it successfully.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/backup.html
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#db
Will this data backup option will help in my requirements or I need to do something else?
I successfully developed the file upload to google drive folders, but i need that data in the backup tab of google drive with app name.
can any one guide me how I can implement this or provide me some references?
Thanks in advance..!
You may refer with this documentation. The Google Drive API includes a special hidden folder that your app can use to store application data.
Note: This feature now uses the alias appDataFolder in place of appdata and appfolder.
To be able to use your Application Data folder, request access to the following scope:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata
For more information about scopes and how to request access to them, see Authorizing Your App with Google Drive.
We have a cloud based audit application. While performing audit a user typically uploads a lot of documents. Currently in order to view the documents he has to download them. Business requirement is that on clicking the document it should directly open up in another browser tab using office 365 just like dropbox/onedrive. The user should be able to view, edit, save it on server (without downloading) and close it. How to achieve that in our application?
Our webapp is built using ReactJS, NodeJS & MongoDB. Whenever a user uploads a document it gets saved in a AWS S3 bucket.
I went through Microsoft Graph API and OneDrive RestAPI's. Looks like the only solution is to use the OneDrive API's to save files in OneDrive instead of S3. And then it should allow you to use the Office365 apps. Is this the right solution? Am I missing anything?
Is there any other solution?
While the easiest solution is indeed to store the documents in OneDrive, there's also another way. You can enroll in Microsoft's Cloud Storage Partners Program and implement the WOPI protocol on your service. This would allow the Office Online viewers/editors to integrate with your service's data directly.
You need to use both aws and O365 api to reach a working solution. Try the following steps (PS: I have not tried this. But I have saved edited documents from Office 365 to AWS)
Read the uploaded document from AWS using AWS api's and upload it to office doc using office doc api.
Edit the doc using office docs api.
Save the doc back to S3
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.
I am creating a web service that mashes up Dropbox, Soundcloud and Wordpress.
I need a callback when user places a file in his Dropbox folder so that I can update the browser user interface. Since it is possible to ask for a download link locally before a file is completely synced, I naturally expect it to be possible to get a callback when file sync has started on a file-by-file basis.
However according to what I experienced /delta only shows files that have finished syncing.
Is there a way to know when file sync starts? If it is not possible via Core API, could it be possible with a small client applet (java or something)?
The Dropbox API doesn't currently expose any notion of a pending upload or file sync status. It can only return information about files that have finished uploading.
Likewise, even with a client app running on the same OS, there currently isn't an interface for communicating with the official Dropbox desktop client to get this information.
I am using Dropbox's Dropin Saver to upload files into my Dropbox account. Can I upload a file from my computer (not from a web site)?
No. Presumably the user could just do that on dropbox.com if they wanted?
As finding the straight-forward solution to your question is still not easy, let me point you to the Dropbox API Explorer:
Create a Dropbox Web-App with a few clicks.
Use its Access Token in the Dropbox API Explorer/upload to create a code snippet including a preview for what you are looking for.
Use the cURL or Python code in your code.