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Cyrin
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8 years ago

Select, Move, and Output a Random Image from a Folder?

Hello Dropbox developer community, I would like to start by saying that I'm very new to the useage of the Dropbox API (and, to be honest, Python in general). However, I am in the process of attempti...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

The Dropbox API does offer an official Python SDK with the ability to list, download, and upload files, among other operations, so this certainly should be possible. 

 

For instance, you could use files_list_folder and files_list_folder_continue to list the contents of any desired Dropbox folder (e.g., "/Queue") and then randomly choose one of the entries in the list. You could then get the file data using files_download, and move the file when you're done with it using files_move.

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