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jen_p11299
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6 years ago

Running a script (Exiftool) on server containing video files

I would like to automaticaly extract metadata from videos in a folder using exiftool. Exiftool requires the videos to be downloaded; however, I have over 1 TB of videos. Would it therefore be possible to run a script directly on the server containing the video files ? I looked over the API and I haven't found any way to do so. 

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

    No, unfortunately Dropbox doesn't offer the ability to run custom operations directly on Dropbox itself like this. If you need access to the file data to run a tool on it, you'd need to download the file data first. I'll pass this along as a feature request, but I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.

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