Dropbox + Docker POC

Downloads an arbitrary folder from your Dropbox account via Docker.

Setup

Setting up Docker

Visit https://docs.docker.com/get-started/ and follow the instructions to set up Docker on your machine.

Setting up Dropbox

1. Visit https://www.dropbox.com/developers and click "Create apps"
2. Make the following selections:
   1. For "Choose an API", select the first choice, "Dropbox API"
   2. For "Choose the type of access you need", select "Full Dropbox"
   3. Enter a name. Must be globally unique on Dropbox.
3. Click "Create app"
4. You'll be taken to the App Console for your new app. Under the "OAuth 2" section, under "Generated access token", click, "Generate"
5. Copy the token. WARNING: Anyone with this token has access to your full Dropbox account. Keep it secure.

Running the Image

Our image will download the specified folder to a file called "download.zip" in your current working directory. To run the image, use the docker run command, passing in the following:

• Your token.
• A path to the folder, starting from the root ("/"). Omit the first slash, e.g., if my target Dropbox folder is at /foo/bar, enter "foo/bar" as the path.

Here's the script:

On Windows, run the following commands in Powershell:

$DBX_TOKEN=<your token>
$DBX_PATH=<your path>
docker run -it -e DBX_TOKEN=$DBX_TOKEN -e DBX_PATH=$DBOX_PATH -v ${PWD}:/data d4hines/dropbox-poc

On *nix environments, run the following commands in your shell: (Due to some bugs with WSL and Docker, I haven't tested this, so the syntax might be off, but it should be close)

DBX_TOKEN=<your token>
DBX_PATH=<your path>
docker run -it -e DBX_TOKEN=$DBX_TOKEN -e DBX_PATH=$DBOX_PATH -v ${pwd}:/data d4hines/dropbox-poc