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How to only upload newest file with python 3?
Hello I am working on an app and have developed code for uploading video that I have taken with a camera setup. The problem I have been facing is that using python 3 I am only capable of uploading a...
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorIt looks like you already have the code for uploading to Dropbox, so you'd need to write some more code for decided whether or not to do so for any particular local file. That's not specific to the Dropbox API though, so I'm afraid I can't offer much help in that regard.
For example, you may want to retrieve the local created/modified metadata for each local file and sort the list, and then only upload the last one accordingly.
Or, you can decide whether or not to upload a file based on whether or not it's already listed on Dropbox. In that case, you can use files_list_folder and files_list_folder_continue to list what's currently on Dropbox and compare that to the local list.
In an effort to keep things as simple as possible I have added two lines of python code that scans and save the newest file in the folder than saves it to a varible. Next I added some basic code to upload the file to dropbox but I am running into two problems. The main issue is while the files are uploaded and show up on dropbox they are not completly uploaded and cannot be played and I think they are corrupt. The other issue is I am unable to preserve the filenames which is important becuase I added a timestamp to the video names to easily record when they were filmed.
allfiles = glob.glob('/home/pi/Documents/CameraFeeds/*')
newestfile = max(allfiles, key=os.path.getctime)
dropbox_path = os.path.join('/*')
with open(newestfile, 'rb') as f:
dbx.files_upload(f.read(), dropbox_path, mute=True)
- Greg-DB[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48600061/simple-code-to-upload-a-video-to-dropbox-with-python ]
It looks like you already got this sorted out using upload sessions in your StackOverflow post.
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