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Tyler Rinker
Tyler Rinker

Reputation: 109864

Get a dropbox url from the command line

I'm a windows 7 user and I want to access an object from within my public dropbox folder using the command line. How do I do that (note my skills with the command line are weak so be gentle please. This is what I'm basing my information on: DROPBOX CITE LINK

Here's the path to my drop box and what I attempted:

#the path
C:/Users/trinker/Dropbox/Public/plot.png

#the attempt to retrieve the url of plot.png
CD C:/Users/trinker/Dropbox/Public/
C:/Users/trinker/Dropbox/bin/dropbox.py puburl C:/Users/trinker/Dropbox/Public/plot.png

Note my slashes are going the opposite way you'd normally see them on a windows machine as I'm using this within another program that requires the slashes be in this direction or doubled as in \\

The goal is to retrieve the url for the dropbox object.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5440

Answers (2)

w33mhz
w33mhz

Reputation: 370

I don't know exactly what you are doing but if that is the url to your dropbox share, and you just wanted to access via command line have you tried just mapping a network drive to that URL to see if it works?

Upvotes: 0

Tyler Rinker
Tyler Rinker

Reputation: 109864

There is a work around pointed out to me by my friend Dason. Go to your public folder and copy the link from a file. Here's one of mine:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61803503/%20wordcloud.pdf

The account number is always the same for your own drop box. So the following form will allow me to share documents:

file.path("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61803503", DOCUMENT_NAME_HERE)

Upvotes: 1

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