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alex t.14
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11 years ago

Dropbox as python app filesystem

Hello guys I wrote an app with Flask/python and deployed on Heroku. Than I realised Heroku destroys files written within its filesystem. So I thought I could maybe use dropbox for uploading and delet...
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Steve M.
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11 years ago

The typical use of the Dropbox API is for when your app needs to read and write files in a user's Dropbox, not your own account. The use you describe here seems like a better use case for something like S3, which, for example, doesn't have bandwidth limits (like Dropbox does). Here are Heroku's docs on using S3: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/s3.

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