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feni
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
How to upload files in batch?
Suppose I have some files I'd like to upload to a folder on Dropbox using dropbox-sdk-python. Some of the files are more than 150 MB, some of them less than 1 MB. The documentation recommends upload...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
5 years agoWe don't currently have an official sample for that using the Python SDK in particular, but I'll pass this along as request for one.
Here's an example I put together for uploading a large files using upload sessions though: (note, I haven't tested this extensively, and it doesn't have any error handling)
f = open(file_path)
file_size = os.path.getsize(file_path)
CHUNK_SIZE = 4 * 1024 * 1024
if file_size <= CHUNK_SIZE:
print dbx.files_upload(f.read(), dest_path)
else:
upload_session_start_result = dbx.files_upload_session_start(f.read(CHUNK_SIZE))
cursor = dropbox.files.UploadSessionCursor(session_id=upload_session_start_result.session_id,
offset=f.tell())
commit = dropbox.files.CommitInfo(path=dest_path)
while f.tell() <= file_size:
if ((file_size - f.tell()) <= CHUNK_SIZE):
print dbx.files_upload_session_finish(f.read(CHUNK_SIZE),
cursor,
commit)
break
else:
dbx.files_upload_session_append_v2(f.read(CHUNK_SIZE),
cursor)
cursor.offset = f.tell()
f.close()- feni5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
It is very sad that such a big cloud storage does not have reliable uploading function in their SDK.
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