Commands tagged dropbox (3)

  • Dropbox login using only curl, sed and bash

    Use the command line to log into Dropbox. You have to replace me@yahoo.com with your Dropbox email (note the URL-encoding of "@" as %40). Also replace my_passwd with your Dropbox password. (Note: special characters in your password (such as #) must be url-encoded. You will get a cookie (stored in file "cookie") that you can use for subsequent curl operations to dropbox, for example curl -b cookie https://www.dropbox.com/home. Debug note: If you want to see what data curl posts, use curl's --trace-ascii flag. Show Sample Output


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    link=https://www.dropbox.com/login ; curl -b a -c cookie -d "t=$(curl -c a $link | sed -rn 's/.*TOKEN: "([^"]*).*/\1/p')&login_email=me%40yahoo.com&login_password=my_passwd" $link
    nixnax · 2013-07-12 07:43:21 0
  • Return Dropbox folder location.

    Newer versions of Dropbox let you choose the location for your Dropbox folder. If you use script to put things into your Dropbox folder (todo list, screenshots, torrents etc.) but have the Dropbox folder in different locations on your other computers this lets you use the same script on all systems without having to tell it where the Dropbox folder is. Show Sample Output


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    sqlite3 $HOME/.dropbox/config.db "select value from config where key like '%dropbox_path%'"
    mobilediesel · 2011-06-05 08:26:02 0
  • bash script to zip a folder while ignoring git files and copying it to dropbox

    If like me you do a lot of front-end coding and you have a lot of clients that asks you some little modifications, then you send the modifications back to them in a zip file while ignoring the .git folder and .gitignore file, then copy this zip into your dropbox and send it back to them. They find out a new bug so, rince and repeat? You get the picture. It can be quite tedious.


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    zip -r homard homard -x homard/.git\*; cp ./homard.zip /path_to_dropbox_public_folder/homard.zip
    juliend2 · 2010-06-30 22:19:39 0

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