A simple python file-storage solution using dropbox and google app engine
###What services we use here###
- Dropbox - to store your files.
- Google App Engine - python runtime where we implement this handler code.
###How we build our environment### #####Dropbox#####
- Create a dropbox account.
- Create a folder inside your "Public" directory.
- Create a test file inside that folder, Right-click and view its public url and find out your user-id. (public url will be in the syntax: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/<USERID>/<YOURFOLDER>/testfile)
- Input user-id and folder-name as variable values in
index.py.
DROPBOX_USERID = "<USERID>"
DROPBOX_FOLDER = "<YOURFOLDER>"#####Google App Engine#####
- Create a Google App Engine account.
- register a unique app-id.
- now your application will run at <app-id>.appspot.com
- Dowload Python and Google App Engine SDK
- Download this project.
- Select "src" folder as the project folder in the GAE SDK.
- Deploy it to App Engine.
###Example### http://py-storage.appspot.com/test
This serves the file 'test' that is located in the specified folder of my Dropbox's Public directory.
###Access the files under your own domain###
- Let's say you want to acces the test file as <files.yourwebsite.com>/test
- Login to your App Engine, set custom domain for your app as <files.yourwebsite.com>
- In your website's DNS settings: point CNAME record for <files.yourwebsite.com> to ghs.googlehosted.com
- You're done.