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areich
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8 years ago

Copy files from remote computer to DropBox

Hello,   I would like to copy files from a remote computer to DropBox. Basically I want to do scp -r into DropBox. Is there a way that I can do this through the API? One potential wrinkle: my inst...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

areich The Dropbox API does offer the ability to upload files programmatically. For smaller files:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload

 

For larger files:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload_session-start

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload_session-append_v2

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload_session-finish

 

Those are subject to any limits on your Business plan though, so you'd need to contact your account representative to change that if necessary.

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