I'm building a site that has a section with a lot of files. The files get updated quarterly. It's a low-traffic site and not a huge amount of data, so rather than have the client send the files to me every quarter, I'd like to host them in a public folder on the client's dropbox. Is there an easy way to do this that wouldn't require any authentication once it was initially set-up? Even better is there a widget I can install? I looked at the dropbox API docs, but those mostly seem to be more complex use cases....
Note: there's not much budget for doing a lot of custom dev, so even though it would be cheaper in the long run to build this, if it isn't fairly drop-in, the client would probably prefer the FTP approach.
Use Dropbox Core API for the listing: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core
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OK so hear this: I have a project in mind, which would require a front-end solution (most likely pure html,css,js) and a back-end solution (not sure of the language yet)... if the site will be made in two parts (the app itself, and the static, I don't know how to call that site? it's the introduction site with about me etc.), how do I properly have the project organized if it will grow?
I recently developed a new REST API for a company. I've created a Postman collection including some sample requests for real-world scenarios. I need to share this collection with other members of the organization.
I found a "Publish Docs" menu option for Postman collections which is pretty cool. It publishes web pages of the documentation and then displays the url for where the documentation can be accessed:
https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/1401123/RWML234Hd
One issue is that the documentation is publicly available to anyone who has the url. Meaning that anyone on the internet could potentially access the documentation. This is a corporate API and should only be accessible within the organization.
Another issue is that it appears that the published url changes every time I "Publish Docs." That's a problem b/c I need to provide a static url for Postman examples on the corporate intranet page listing API resources. My manager won't spend any money on this. I like the documentation feature but:
The documentation should have a static url
The documentation should not be accessible by anyone on the internet who gets a hold of the url
Would I need to pay license costs to satisfy the 2 requirements listed above? What would be my best free option? The default free option for me would be to save off the collection json to a shared drive on the network.
I've been asking this very question for a while now. Finally decided to implement a simple tool that generates an HTML document similar to what postman does.
hope this helps -
https://github.com/karthiks3000/postman-doc-gen
I am asking this here because Soundcloud does not have support. I going to build a website that people can purchase audio files from using Soundcloud to download the files (and stream before buy). I want to be able to access the download file link in the Soundcloud API without the download link being enabled and showing on the Soundcloud UI. I can't seem to find this info in the Soundcloud API docs. I am going to have a Paypal redirect after the payment to the download link. I know this is a weird way of doing this but I have certain criteria I have to meet. I would host the audio files on my server but they are huge. Anyone have experience with this or can help?
im not sure its possible to do what you want. (very easily at least)
there would be no way for the purchaser to access the 'download' track on soundcloud directly unless downloads are specifically enabled for that track.
really the only way to not host the files and still be able to provide the download would be to use the api to download or proxy the track from soundcloud to your server, using your credentials (because you always have access to your own tracks, download or stream). mind you this would use 2x the bandwidth usage (the server getting the track from soundcloud, and the client downloading the track), and storage space would only be impacked on a temporary bases. but. this is a pretty hacky way and not really a good/proper solution.
you can:
-compress/re-encode the audio as to not use as much disk space
-pay for more storage space at your web host, its usually pretty cheap thse days.
So you want to charge on something free? Well, I think all the downloader out there are middleware where they stream the track from soundcloud and response to client as attachment upon request, one of many examples is http://wittysound.com. Cheapest way to get thing done is providing direct link to soundcloud server like what http://soundflush.com does
I'm using the dropboxd service under Linux, which requires you to log into their website e.g. https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id=2173bf325f94beee3b1879d2c7b49e69 to link the machine to your account.
Is there any programatic way to do this (ideally using Java)? To access the website above it seems you need to login using forms (which seems tricky to do programatically), and their basic REST API (https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs) doesnt seem to cover the cli_link command.
I could write an app to do the sync using their full API, but it seems like overkill since aside from the cli_link requirement the basic dropboxd does all that I need.
The official Dropbox desktop client is unrelated to the API, though both the API and the Linux CLI require user interaction on the Dropbox web site (once per link) to authorize the linking. Also, note that automating/scraping the site itself is not allowed by the terms:
https://www.dropbox.com/terms#acceptable_use
Not really a solution for DropBox users, but in the end we just moved over to use MediaFire instead. That has a full REST API and doesnt require any manual intervention.
I was asked to build a control-system for a Ebay-like Finnish auction-site huuto.net.
The system would reopen closed auctions by a specific rules. It would be completely external from the main site, running at an external website.
The site is however unwilling to release its API and Schema. I know no way to build such a system without knowing its API.
How do you build an internet site without its API and Schema?
You could try some form of automatic browsing: mechanize
Edit:
Examples here.
I think you're asking about building a site that interacts with another site without using a well-defined API. Is that right?
You can interact with an external site without using an official API - in order to do so, you need to imitate a normal site visitor and send your requests to the site frontend (in much the same way as a web crawler does). Tools like hpricot, mechanize and curl can help you parse the content of pages and send requests, but in doing so your system may be quite brittle. Any change to the target site might mean you have to rewrite portions of your system.
It might be possible to get the data you need by screen scraping the site. You could perform the operations you want to do by POSTing data into their forms or using a WebClient type API to make your program act like a web browser but that's likely to be an extremely brittle solution.
Honestly though, without an API, there really is no good solution.
you either need access to the database or an API, otherwise no point in even trying.