The Dropbox JavaScript SDK is a lightweight, promise based interface to the Dropbox v2 API that works in both nodejs and browser environments.
Questions tagged [dropbox-sdk-js]
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How can I indicate to the Storage Access Framework that I no longer require the loading animation?
I am writing a DocumentsProvider for Dropbox. I am attempting to follow the Google guidelines for creating a custom provider, as well as Ian Lake's post on Medium for the same.
I am attempting to incorporate the feature within the Storage Access…
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Dropbox: upload file to public file request with JavaScript
I generated a public file request in Dropbox and would like to write some javascript code to programmatically upload a file which is generated on the flow (e.g. var myJsonString = JSON.stringify(myArray)) to the public folder.
As an example, I…
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Dropbox direct upload files from browser
I am trying to upload files directly to dropbox [from a browser / web application], The "uploadFile" function on the code API needs the file to be uploaded available on the server, this puts me in trouble, because I do not want any files to be…
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Upload blob to dropbox from client-side javascript
I have an app that runs in the client browser and doesn't have any server side (http/js is served, but nothing posts to the server). the app is redeployed on many servers (iis, apache, nginx, sometimes localhost, sometimes on an intranet) and are…
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How to use pdfjs in a google cloud function to accept a pdf read from Dropbox as a fileBinary?
Context
I am using Dropbox and PDFJs library inside a Google Cloud Function
What I'm doing
Inside my functions folder i run
npm i --save pdfjs-dist
Then I download a pdf content from dropbox (this works)
exports.readAProgram =…
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How to solve Malformed Origin error in Dropbox Javascript Chooser
Dropbox Chooser Error: Malformed origin
I am porting an app from Objective C to Delphi 10.2. The app uses Dropbox to save and retrieve files. The iOS version uses the Dropbox SDK for iOS. I'm trying to use the Dropbox Javascript Chooser in the…
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How to access (read/write) advanced file EXIF/metadata in the Dropbox JavaScript API?
How to access (read/write) advanced file metadata in the Dropbox JavaScript API?
I'm talking about things like e.g.: MacOS file tags. Or the camera model inside the EXIF data.
Please note that dbx.filesGetMetadata(arg) does not provide very detailed…
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How to open popup with dropbox-api dropbox-js V2
I'm trying to migrate to dropbox-api v2 in my web application.
Currently I have implementation of opening popup window where user connects to his/her dropbox and I get token. Which I use to get access to files user selected in Dropbox.chooser in…
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Fetch Image from dropbox to generate html by php OR by dropbox APi
I want to fetch an image from a dropbox URL. The URL is below:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/afko74vlm19yimi/AAAJ03JqyS57nHpZlYjZm6zNa?dl=0
How can I use PHP/dropbox api to fetch this image from the above URL and use it in an HTML file?
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How to get list of shared links of files of a folder in Dropbox
I have a folder (Photos/Sample Album) in Dropbox. What I want to do is display all the images in that folder on my website.
Solution I have been able to come up with is following:
Use Metadata API to get all the files of the folder. Then I can use…
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how to execute multiple callbacks and return results array?
I am trying to get an array of image URLs inside Dropbox in JSON format. In order to do that, I have written the following function:
router.get('/thumbnails', function(req, res, next){
var images = [];
var imagesCount = -1;
var isLoggedIn =…
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Itererating all folders and files to get a list using js dropbox api
I need to get a list of all files by iterating all folders in the specified parent folder.
I have heard that recursion is the best way to achieve, but I am unsure how to use recursion for fetching list of files in a folder using Dropbox API.
The…
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Fetch API uploads corrupted Excel files to Dropbox
I'm using a Dropbox SDK JS ("dropbox": "^10.10.0") to upload files via filesGetTemporaryUploadLink, this method returns a temporal URL for file uploading.
The way I upload a file:
const fileUploadResult = await fetch(uploadDestination.url, {
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Can't get access token in dropbox uses javascript fetch request
l try to get access token uses javascript fetch in the next way:
fetch('https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token', {
method: 'POST',
code: AUTHORIZATION_CODE,
grant_type: 'authorization_code',
redirect_uri:…
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Dropbox JavaScript SDK suddenly gives "Dropbox.Dropbox is not a constructor" error
I am using Dropbox JavaScript SDK. Until 8 Jun 2020 my upload code worked fine but after 8 Jun 2020 it gives an error. See below for the code and error:
code
var ACCESS_TOKEN = '';
var dbx = new…
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