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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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How should I store API keys in a Python app?

In my case I'm using the Dropbox API. Currently I'm storing the key and secret in a JSON file, just so that I can gitignore it and keep it out of the Github repo, but obviously that's no better than having it in the code from a security standpoint.…
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Using the dropbox web interface to delete a folder with 30,000 files

I have a folder in my dropbox with 30,000 files, that I can't delete using the web interface. It appears that I have to download all 30,000 files in order to tell dropbox I really don't want them. This error arose because the machine that…
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Missing scope error Dropbox API authentication?

I'm trying to download a large Dropbox folder with a bunch of subfolders to an external harddrive using the scripts at: http://tilburgsciencehub.com/examples/dropbox/ import dropbox from get_dropbox import get_folders, get_files from…
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Error 400 when trying to access Dropbox API via Dropbox Javascript SDK

I have an app that via Dropbox Javascript SDK trying to download the file. I don't have any idea what is wrong. Accessing Dropbox API via fetch calls directly bringing the same error. Dropbox API documentation saying that error 400 is for bad input…
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iPhone DropBox API: How to load a file?

A very basic question concerning dropBox integration into an iPhone app. I followed the setup of the DropBoxSDK and everything works fine. I can log on to my account and get it linked. So I set up everything correctly. Now I would like to use it to…
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How to compare HMAC SHA256 signatures from request body in NodeJS

I am trying to use Dropbox's API, and I got it to successfully send me alerts via webhooks, but now I want to verify the signatures every time they send me an alert. From dropbox's documentation, they write: "Every notification request will include…
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createReadStream not working/extremely slow for large files

Im using DropBox API to upload files. To upload the files to dropbox I am going through the following steps: First upload file from form to a local directory on the server. Read File from local directory using fs.createReadStream Send file to…
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Dropbox API: How to use API to get file's shared link?

I have a folder which contains 100+ files, I want to shall them all and get all the shared links, is there anyway to do this?
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CocoaPods not importing SDK frameworks properly

I have been trying to import the Dropbox-iOS-SDK into my project through CocoaPods, but the framework file doesn't seem to be imported properly. My Podfile looks like this: platform :ios, '7.0' pod "AFNetworking", "~> 2.0" pod 'Reachability' pod…
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Access dropbox api without clientside authentication?

I'm trying to create a smooth solution for sharing files with a custom presentation of the files (logos fonts etc). My ideal would be to put the files in a dropbox folder and then have a webpage, on a separate server, access those files over…
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Uploading to Dropbox from Google Drive

As a test case, I'm trying to copy a file from Google Drive to Dropbox using Google Scripts function pushBuild() { // Setup OAuthServiceConfig var oAuthConfig = UrlFetchApp.addOAuthService("dropbox"); …
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Locally calculate dropbox hash of files

Dropbox rest api, in function metatada has a parameter named "hash" https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#metadata Can I calculate this hash locally without call any remote api rest function? I need know this value to reduce upload…
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How to share apps folder to another dropbox user

I am developing an app that can upload and download within dropbox folder the dropbox automatically create an apps folder my question is, how to share the folder to another dropbox user i have tried before, it stated that the apps folder cannot be…
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Dropbox integration

I am new to integrating drop box, but I am not quite sure how to generate a call to get the request token secret. https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#request-token I have to make a call to this url…
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using dropbox as a server for my django app

I dont know if at all i make any sense, but this popped up in my mind. Can we use the 2gb free hosting of dropbox to put our django app over there and do some hacks to run our app?
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