dropper.py

work in progress right here. Highly undocumented, may break

Simple dropbox downsyncing script, intended for RaspberryPi use.

How to use (for now, will simplify setup)

1. Create a file .dropper.json

1.1 Add app_key and app_secret. Your .dropper.json should look like this:

{
  "app_key": "abcdefghijk",
  "app_secret": "123456789"
}

2. Call python3 dropper.py and read the USAGE information. Alternatively, read the USAGE file in the repository

Limitations

For now, the Capitalization of paths is ignored, every path is converted to lowercase and ASCII.

This is caused by a bug in the Dropbox API, where somtimes files have incorrect metadata

Note

• This is the first thing i have ever done in Python. If there is some bad code, please let me know. I have no idea, what is considered best practise in the Python world.

• This was developed using Python3.4. It should work with 3.x. However there is no 2.x support