dropbox-api

While starting to develop a Dropbox app using the Python SDK, I'm tripping conceptually over what the AccessLevel documentation calls a union tag . (The concept extends beyond the AccessLevel class, but this seems like as good an example as any.) I'm trying to understand why the _tag attribute basically appears to be intended for internal use only. Why, if I want to know if a user has editor, owner, or viewer permission—-and it can only be one of those--I seem to be supposed to call the is_owner() , is_editor() , and is_viewer() methods until I get a True response. What am I missing? Why

I'm using the dropbox API to migrate a large amount of files from one dropbox account to another. This seems to be taking between 2 and 7 seconds per file. Are there any ways to speed up the time it takes to move files using the dropbox API? source = dropbox.Dropbox('connectionstring') target = dropbox.Dropbox('connectionstring') list_folder = source.files_list_folder('') while list_folder: files = re.findall(r'name=[\'"]?([^\'" >]+)', str(list_folder)) for f in files: source.files_download_to_file(f,'') files = open(f,mode='rb') target.files_upload(files.read(),'') files.close() os.remove(f)

I have multiple files in dropbox account. I am successfully downloading files. But I want to show the progress bar with the percentage so when all files gets downloaded.The progress bar finishes.I am using AsyncTask for downloading files.here is my code. public void onPreExecute(){ mDialog = new ProgressDialog(mContext); mDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL); mDialog.setMax(100); mDialog.show(); } public void downloadFiles(String filename){ Log.i("Item Name",filename); File dir = null; Boolean isSDPresent = android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(android.os

I would like to know how to upload multiple files to dropbox using the java dropbox api. I would like to know this as currently, when I want to upload a folder, I recursively go through every file in the folder and upload them one by one. However, I find this too slow. So, I thought that I could just upload all the files in a folder at once. But, how would I do this? Should I create n number of threads and each thread uploads a single file or what? Yes, you can call the API using multiple threads and upload files. You can use Thread Pools for the same. You need to identify the point for

We're using the Dropbox API in our App but haven't found a way to succcessfully deauthenticate. Currently we call the disable_access_token on logout, which works (i.e. subsequent calls using the token fail). Unfortunately, the next time the OAuth2 login process is initiated the session gets completely revived without asking the user for their credentials, meaning that until the app is uninstalled, only one Dropbox user can be authenticated. This seems to be a regression issue as everything was working a few weeks ago (that is, the session was not being revived automatically). EDIT To be clear,

A friend sent me the URL of a dropbox folder he shared with me. This folder has files whose total size is about 8GB. I have a basic account with 2GB limit, so I cannot add the shared folder contents to my dropbox folder. How do I programmatically download all the files from the shared folder to my PC? I checked the documentation (both v1 and v2) and didn't find any APIs that would do this. Am I missing something? The current version of the Dropbox API, has endpoints for getting the metadata of shared links, as well as downloading files from shared links: to get the metadata for a shared link: