how to allow listening access of Dropbox audio files within my apps interface

[tenzin]

I want to allow users of my app to them be able to connect their dropbox account and select the folder they want to allow access to. 

Their folder names and their file names will be displayed in their profile on my app. 

Then I want them to be able to play the audio file within my app's interface.

I also want the process of them connecting dropbox to be s seamless as possible. Ideally only 4 steps.

• Click upload from within my app (opens dropbox login)
• Login to dropbox 
• Select the folders
• Click done (close dropbox, navigates back to my app)

Without them having to create an account on a third-party integrations tool.

Is there a way I achieve this?

[Здравко]

Hi @tenzin,

You can make your application simpler, if you just register a shared folder link in the application. After that you can enumerate the content and do whatever you want without any user login, etc. The user just has to provide a link to whatever becomes selected. 😉

Good luck.

[Greg-DB]

@tenzin As Здравко noted, you may want to use Dropbox shared links. The Dropbox Embedder may be useful in that case.

Otherwise, Dropbox does offer an API you can use for listing, uploading, and downloading files, among other operations. You can find everything you need to get started with the Dropbox API, including documentation, tutorials, and SDKs here.

The following guides may be helpful:

• https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/getting-started
• https://developers.dropbox.com/oauth-guide
• https://developers.dropbox.com/dbx-file-access-guide

[tenzin]

Thanks for your response!

I followed the steps in this how to.

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/embedder

I added the embed code and nothing is showing up. I'm having trouble understanding how the users of my app will select the folders from their dropbox that they want to embed into my app. 

[tenzin]

If I did it this way, then the users would have to go to their dropbox account and create a share link, then how do they add that link in my app?

[tenzin]

I figured out how to embed the folder. But when I click on a folder within the embed, it opens the file on dropbox. Do you know how to open the file within the embed?

[Здравко · Accepted solution]

Hi @tenzin,

Embeder cannot handle all data types. Currently audio and video files are not supported as noted in the link you refer to. You should organize audio playing in your site by yourself. Selecting particular file or folder can be achieved using Chooser too.

Good luck.

[tenzin]

Do you know how to implement this on an App built on Bubble.io? I'd be open to hiring you to implement this in my Mobile app if you're interested. 

[Greg-DB]

@tenzin While I can't speak for others on this forum, Dropbox itself does not offer app-building services or have listings or recommendations of developers for hire, but I'll pass this along as a request for an offering like that. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

[Здравко]

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@tenzin wrote:

Do you know how to implement this on an App built on Bubble.io? ...

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@tenzin, You can take a look on an example here to how Dropbox Chooser can be used to implement some player as well as for anything else (just select appropriate settings/fields) on Bubble.io. Chooser is usable for mobile as well for desktop apps. 😉