Updated version of this article: here.
Hi,
There are a couple of scripts floating around the Internets you can use to interact with Dropbox from your Raspberry PI.
I find that the easiest way is to use python (the Dropbox client itself is python).
You will need a Dropbox API key which you can get here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers
The following code assumes you have the Dropbox Python SDK available/installed:
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#!/usr/bin/python # Include the Dropbox SDK libraries from dropbox import client, rest, session import os import sys # Get your app key and secret from the Dropbox developer website APP_KEY = 'your_api_key' APP_SECRET = 'your_app_secret' # ACCESS_TYPE should be 'dropbox' or 'app_folder' as configured for your app ACCESS_TYPE = 'app_folder' sess = session.DropboxSession(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, ACCESS_TYPE) if os.path.exists('token.txt'): token_file = open('token.txt', 'rb') key = token_file.read(15) secret = token_file.read(15) token_file.close() sess.set_token(key, secret) else: request_token = sess.obtain_request_token() # Make the user sign in and authorize this token url = sess.build_authorize_url(request_token) print "url:", url print "Please authorize in the browser. After you're done, press enter." raw_input() # This will fail if the user didn't visit the above URL and hit 'Allow' access_token = sess.obtain_access_token(request_token) if (access_token): #print access_token.key #print access_token.secret token_file = open('token.txt', 'wb') token_file.write(access_token.key) token_file.write(access_token.secret) token_file.close() client = client.DropboxClient(sess) # print "linked account:", client.account_info() noParams = len(sys.argv) if noParams < 2: print "Usage: upload_to_dropbox.py <file1> ..." sys.exit(0) for idx in range(1, noParams): f = open(sys.argv[idx]) filename = os.path.basename(sys.argv[idx]) response = client.put_file(filename, f, True) print "uploaded:", response |
The secret sauce to this python is that the auth token is saved in a .txt file.
If you don’t have GUI access on your Raspberry PI(like me) you will have to run the script in a desktop environment first and copy over the resulting token.txt which contains your OAuth token.
The token doesn’t really ever expire so no worries, there’s no sugar.