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The API for Dropbox, a file syncing, sharing, and backup service.

The Dropbox API allows developers to build functionality directly into their apps. The API provides methods to read and write from securely. The API allows access to features such as file uploading, downloading, sharing, searching, and restoration. The API can be used across platforms such as , , , , or any other that can make HTTPS connections.

More information, including the specification of the Dropbox API interfaces, usage guidelines, and developer tools such as official SDKs can be found on the Dropbox API website

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Upload file on Linux (CLI) to Dropbox (via bash/sh)?

I need to save (and overwrite) a file via the cron (hourly) to my dropbox account. The file needs to be stored in a predefined location (which is shared with some other users). I have seen the possibility to create a Dropbox App, but that create its…
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Rendering react component after api response

I have a react component that I wish to populate with images using the Dropbox api. The api part works fine, but the component is rendered before the data comes through & so the array is empty. How can I delay the rendering of the component until it…
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Get Notified when a file changes on dropbox

Does dropbox have a way of notifying when a file changes i.e arrival of new uploads or a file has changed.
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The type or namespace name "WebRequestHandler" could not be found

I am trying to use the Dropbox.API code that is listed here: https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/tree/master/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/Examples/SimpleTest I copied their Program.cs into my Program.cs without making other changes to other files in…
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Programmatically Download Content from Shared Dropbox Folder Links

I'm building an application to automatically trigger a download of a Dropbox file shared with a user (shared file/folder link). This was straight forward to implement for Dropbox links to files, as is outlined here. Unfortunately this doesn't work…
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How to copy files using DropBox REST API in Delphi

I do not seem to manage the file copy operating using the dropbox api. I can successfully authorize my client, download and upload files. The copy operation needs POST method to be used and I think this is where I produce wrong request. I am…
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Laravel 5: redirect to an external link outside of localhost/server

I want to build an app with laravel 5 & dropbox API in which I want the API allow/cancel-warning to be displayed when you land on the homepage, not when you click a button. I tried different methods but I couldn`t make it work. public function…
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Python referencing old SSL version

I have a Dropbox upload script on an old nas box I have, recently I've been getting the following error SSL certificate error: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:0D0890A1:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:unknown message digest algorithm I think this is…
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Using Dropbox API to upload a file with Android

How can I upload a File (graphic, audio and video file) with Android using the Dropbox API to Dropbox? I followed the tutorial on the Dropbox SDK Android page and could get the sample to work. But now instead of a String I want to upload an actual…
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PHP x64 not supported x64 integer.. (Wamp & dropbox API)

I am trying to connect to the Dropbox API with WAMP x64 installed. This is the exception from the Dropbox authentication file that I got from this Dropbox php API Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'The Dropbox SDK uses 64-bit…
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Writing files to Dropbox account from GAE

I am trying to create files in a Dropbox.com folder from a GAE application. I have done all the steps the register a Dropbox application and installed the Python SDK from Dropbox locally on my development machine. (see dropbox.com API). It all…
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Transfer files to dropbox from node js without browser based oauth authentication

I am running a nodejs + express based api server from heroku and using the dropbox-js library. Here's what I'd like to do: A user hits a specific api endpoint and kicks off the process. Generate some text files via a node process and save them on…
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Transfer files from dropbox/drive to Google cloud storage

We are planning to implement a feature to let customers browse their images in their own google drive or dropbox accounts (within our app), and select ones they wanna use in our app. Then, we will save these images into our Google cloud storage…
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Error: failed to find request token in session

I found a few issues on the main passport repo, however, I think this primarily pertains to this specific strategy as I'm able to successfully authenticate using the passport-google-oauth strategy. Error: failed to find request token in session …
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Dropbox differential/incremental uploads using REST API

We know that Dropbox desktop clients use a binary diff algorithm to break down all files into blocks, and only upload blocks that it doesn't already have in the cloud…
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