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node-dropbox-v2
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A simple node.js API client for the Dropbox API.
npm install node-dropbox --save
Before starting anything you need to go create your app over at: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps then go ahead and grab your Key and Secret.
Just use the Authenticate method to generate a url for your user to go to. This will be redirected back to another page.
var node_dropbox = require('node-dropbox');
node_dropbox.Authenticate('key', 'secret', 'redirect_url', function(err, url){
// redirect user to the url.
// looks like this: "https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<key_here>&response_type=code&redirect_uri=<redirect_url_here>"
});
On the page where you redirected to, you will need to use the AccessToken method to get the users access token for api use. The redirect_url this time is only for validation, it will not need to redirect again.
node_dropbox.AccessToken('key', 'secret', 'access_code', 'redirect_url', function(err, body) {
access_token = body.access_token;
});
When you have the access token in hand, all you need to do is make api calls. That's all it takes to get started with this client.
api = node_dropbox.api(access_token);
api.account(function(err, res, body) {
console.log(body);
});
The above output will be something like:
{
"referral_link": "https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/r1a2n3d4m5s6t7",
"display_name": "John P. User",
"uid": 12345678,
"team": {
"name": "Acme Inc."
},
"country": "US",
"quota_info": {
"shared": 253738410565,
"quota": 107374182400000,
"normal": 680031877871
}
}
api.account(callback); // Fetches the account information.
api.createDir(path, callback); // Creates a directory.
api.removeDir(path, callback); // Deletes a directory.
api.createFile(path, contents, callback); // Creates a new file.
api.removeFile(path, callback) // Deletes a file.
api.moveSomething(from_path, to_path, callback); // Moves/renames a file.
api.getMetadata(path, callback) // Retrieves file and folder metadata. Can be used to list a folder's content.
api.getFile(path, callback) // Downloads a file.
api.getDelta(cursor, path, callback) // Gets changes to files and folders in a user's Dropbox.
// Each callback will return the error message, response, and body(json data).
api.account(function(error, response, body){
console.log(body.display_name);
});
I plan on implementing the Dropbox Core API features(https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs) and revamping the code a little bit to make it integrate with express easily or possibly just make it more friendly to use. Right now, it's not the best, but it works.
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A simple Dropbox API v2 client for node.js
The npm package node-dropbox-v2 receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, node-dropbox-v2 popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-dropbox-v2 demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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