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HuS
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5 years ago

Export Dropbox-Content to WordPress with list_folder

Plus plan user here. We consider using the API method list_folder to pick up a large Dropbox folder (thousands of images 100-5000 kb each) to populate the Media Library for a WordPress site. Individu...
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kylea's avatar
kylea
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5 years ago

Getting Dropbox files into Wordpress is certainly achievable with the API - there are several community built plugins to Wordpress that allow selection of Dropbox files, see here.  

 

If your goal is to get thumbnails of media files from Dropbox into WordPress, using get_thumbnail_batch using the output of list_folder may be the most efficient way to download the images.

 

 

  • HuS's avatar
    HuS
    Helpful | Level 5
    5 years ago

    Thank you, kylea!
    I wasn't notified that my question got an answer, hence my late reply. I am aware of these WordPress plugins – they, however don't do what we need. The WordPress plugins in this list which make Dropbox available in the Media Library context let you browse Dropbox from within WordPress as an additional image source. 

    We want to automatically (and exclusively) populate our WordPress Media Library with assets stored on Dropbox, so that every published image originally comes from Dropbox. Thumbnails weren't  enough, we need the full-size images. Dropbox would work as a minimal DAM, connected to the WordPress Media Library.

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      5 years ago

      HuS If existing solutions don't address your use case, you can certainly build your own integration. To get the original/full size image data, you could use /2/files/download.

      • HuS's avatar
        HuS
        Helpful | Level 5
        5 years ago

        Thanks Greg,
        we'll look into this.

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