Expense organizer app with DBX API

Demo:

• Dropbox (DBX) API to OAuth into DBX
  

• DBX API to Render images
  

Objective: Expense organizer app that runs on DBX. Dropbox APIs featuring content Endpoints.

* OAuth: Direct the user to Dropbox, and prompt for a code.
* Render image: Files/get_thumbnail Dropbox API call to return a jpeg image for a given path.

What do I do to try out OAuth on DBX?

• OAuth DBX platform ====================

1. Check for Python installation in your terminal, if Python is missing or not found, you’ll need to install it here.

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python -V

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2. Install DropBox (DBX) Platform Python SDK.

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pip install dropbox

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3. OAuth, direct the user to Dropbox, and prompt for a code. DropboxOAuth2FlowNoRedirect object constructs a URL to https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize

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from dropbox import DropboxOAuth2FlowNoRedirect

auth_flow = DropboxOAuth2FlowNoRedirect("APP_KEY", "APP_SECRET") print("Authorize your script here: "+auth_flow.start()) code = raw_input('Input your code: ').strip()

print("Initializing Dropbox API...") dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(auth_flow.finish(code).access_token)

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4. Run db1.py in your terminal

5. Go to the URL you are given to get the OAuth code to get access to the expense receipts

What do I do to try out the get image thumbnail on DBX?

• Render Image Thumbnail on DBX platform =========================================

1. Run db2.py.

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python db2.py

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2. Go to http://localhost:8088

References:

• Note
• DBX Event