TODO

• use oauth and store the creds somewhere else

dropbox paper backup

Dropbox decided to not store Dropbox Paper Markdown files in Dropbox but somewhere else, so there's a need to backup these files!

install & config

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a Dropbox Developer App (https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps) and generate an Acces token. Add this Access token into the python file from this repository as the apikey or export it as an environment variable paperApiKey like so:

export paperApiKey=ASDF1234-abc

usage

python paper-backup.py -d ~/your/dest/folder

or force it, which will delete the files in the destination folder and overwrites them.

python paper-backup.py -f -d /your/target/folder

There's apparently no way to check if the (same file was already downloaded and just needs to be updated, so all your docs will be re-downloaded everytime. Sorry!