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Using Curl & Dropbox API to upload files to a DB request link
I am wanting to create a BASH script in Linux to use when I need to load media files to a Dropbox request link that a group of mine uses for collaboration. How would I do this with curl? The link is ...
Rockymtns99 wrote:I am wanting to create a BASH script ... to load media files to a Dropbox request link ... How would I do this with curl? ...
Hi Rockymtns99,
I don't think it's possible in such a way. If this was possible, that would be a throughput way for something like spam. 🙂
Rockymtns99 wrote:... Can I just parse that in with the API? Is this a feasible task to accomplish? I am usually in a terminal shell and I could save myself time by just running a script to upload the file without having to jump into a browser. ...
Good questions and good idea! 😉
Unfortunately, there isn't a bash SDK. You can create something without SDK by using direct calls to curl, actually. Following API documentation, the simplest way is to create, by hand, a refresh token and save it in some configuration file. Next in your script you can read the refresh token, saved before, and using /oauth2/token call receive access token. Using the access token you can call all other API calls. It expires relatively soon, stays valid more than enough. Using /upload call smaller files could be uploaded directly. For bigger files (more than 150MB) you should gonna create upload session using /upload_session/start call and following calls.
For more sophisticated script, you can create a pseudo server using netcat to perform OAuth flow in addition to curl usage. 👌 "bash" is powerful enough to parse the query containing code/token/etc.
Hope this gives idea.
Rockymtns99 wrote:I am wanting to create a BASH script ... to load media files to a Dropbox request link ... How would I do this with curl? ...
Hi Rockymtns99,
I don't think it's possible in such a way. If this was possible, that would be a throughput way for something like spam. 🙂
Rockymtns99 wrote:... Can I just parse that in with the API? Is this a feasible task to accomplish? I am usually in a terminal shell and I could save myself time by just running a script to upload the file without having to jump into a browser. ...
Good questions and good idea! 😉
Unfortunately, there isn't a bash SDK. You can create something without SDK by using direct calls to curl, actually. Following API documentation, the simplest way is to create, by hand, a refresh token and save it in some configuration file. Next in your script you can read the refresh token, saved before, and using /oauth2/token call receive access token. Using the access token you can call all other API calls. It expires relatively soon, stays valid more than enough. Using /upload call smaller files could be uploaded directly. For bigger files (more than 150MB) you should gonna create upload session using /upload_session/start call and following calls.
For more sophisticated script, you can create a pseudo server using netcat to perform OAuth flow in addition to curl usage. 👌 "bash" is powerful enough to parse the query containing code/token/etc.
Hope this gives idea.
Thanks. That makes sense. I was hoping that there would be an easy way to call a curl command from a script to do quick uploads to the request link but, it sounds like it isn't as simple as I thought.
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