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Uploading to dropbox from an external link
Hi there. I've recently just purchased a dropbox pro account and I'm trying to upload my files to it. Unfortunately I have an awful internet connection (upload speed is about 50kb/s at the most) so it's proving quite time consuming to upload everything.
From my MEGA account I have about 40gb of files that I want to transfer to my dropbox. I've looked at transfer services but none of them support MEGA. While I do have a copy of the data locally, uploading 40+gb is simply unfeasible, and even trying to find a faster connection wouldn't be overly helpful because it's just that much data.
My question then is, is it possible to upload files to dropbox by providing a link to these files. If this isn't possible, if I could get a list of each individual file directly, could it be somehow possible with the API to write something that would upload the files from the other service.
Any help would be great, thank you!
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- Rich
Super User II
is it possible to upload files to dropbox by providing a link to these files.
No.
if I could get a list of each individual file directly, could it be somehow possible with the API to write something that would upload the files from the other service.
Best asked in the API forum. I'm moving your thread there.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
If you're a programmer and are interested in using the API to accomplish this, this would be possible. Specifically, Dropbox API v1 offers the /save_url endpoint, which lets you specify a URL for a file to be added to your account:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/docs#save-url
There's a blog post about it here:
https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/06/programmatically-saving-a-url-to-dropbox/
Hope this helps!
Daniel P., do not try to upload large or plentiful files from the web page. Install and run the dropbox client as it is far more efficient and reliable.
- Rich
Rick, this post is in the API forum and refers to using the Dropbox programming interface, not the website or desktop client, to create a new method of uploading files to Dropbox.
Ah, wandered off the reservation! [ you moved it (-: ] But others might find this too.
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