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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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Dropbox API PHP upload file issue

I use a PHP server to manage Dropbox files for customers. My server records the user's access token. But When customers want to upload a file to theirs Dropbox,they must first upload file to my server,and my server use http(php curl) send file to…
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What can I do to fix this fatal error?

I'm completely new to API's, and am following this tutorial to implement Dropbox's API into an iPhone app I'm building. The tutorial was written in an earlier version of swift, so my problem could be an issue in translation. I'm pretty far along in…
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Read downloaded blob from dropbox API using HTTP

Using dropbox you can create a shortcut by dragging and dropping a URL into your Dropbox folder. This will be saved like this: Using the /2/files/download HTTP API from dropbox will return an XHR response that looks something like this: How do…
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Access cloud sharing files in dropbox, google drive, microsoft onedrive etc. in android app

I have a Windows desktop software that can save a file with customer phone numbers at a dropbox/onedrive/google drive path etc. Can I access that file programatically file on android from any cloud storage? because all customer data is entered in…
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script to read/write a file that is stored in a local "dropbox" folder or a local "google drive"

For the moment, the dropbox API allows a browser to access (read/write) all type of files in a dropbox folder on your local drive by script. The file path and name can be specified in the script. The script works on webpages that are stored on a…
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Dropbox proxy requests

It's possible to do a server side .NET that authenticates to Dropbox and then on the browser side users connect to a website and can read files from that Dropbox account? In other words the server acts as an authentication proxy for Dropbox…
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Is this code in the dropbox documentation right?

from dropbox import Dropbox from dropbox import DropboxOAuth2FlowNoRedirect auth_flow = DropboxOAuth2FlowNoRedirect(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET) authorize_url = auth_flow.start() print "1. Go to: " + authorize_url print "2. Click \"Allow\" (you might have…
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Android Core API .search() returns empty list

For some reason, the following code has stopped working as it used to. The .search() method now returns an empty list. This code has been working without any problems and alterations for months, serving hundreds of users. The file "myfile.txt" is…
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Showing images from DropBox

I've been trying for long time to show images that I have in Dropbox, I'm reading the files correctly, but in the view I'm not sure how to put the content of the src parameter of image . In my controller I'm getting a SearchResult and then I'm…
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JavaScript write base64 image data to Dropbox using API v2

I'm currently working on a feature for a web app using Dropbox. The feature involves some image editing using an HTML 5 Canvas and saving the canvas image to Dropbox. I'm trying to get the canvas image converted to base64 image data and write…
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Android Dropbox API v2 auto access using access token

In android API v1 I am able to pass access token through which I didn't need to login to Dropbox. In api v2 can you please let me know how to do that? In API v2 auto access can be done without the following code…
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Is it possible to upload a file to Dropbox API v2.0 with a path?

I'm successfully uploading a new document by specifying its name and its content but is that possible to actually pass the document itself? async Task Upload(DropboxClient dbx, string folder, string file, string content) { using (var mem = new…
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How the file renaming thing happens (backend) in cloud services?

Does anybody has idea how cloud platforms like dropbox, googledrive do manage file renaming conflicts? Because when a file is renamed in the cloud drive in our local machine/cloud drive previous file will also sync along with the new file. which…
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Android Dropbox API v1 upload file and get shared link of this file

I have uploaded file and when I try to get the shared link then it gives NullPointerException. FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(mFile); String path = mPath + mFile.getName(); DropboxAPI.Entry response = mApi.putFile(path,…
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Android Dropbox Upload file and would like to get the shared path of that upload file

I am able to upload image to Dropbox but I would like to get uploaded file path so I am able to keep the path for future references. I have uploaded by FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(mFile); String path = mPath + mFile.getName(); …
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