Simple Command Line Dropbox Uploader in Python
Sun 10 April 2016 by Thejaswi PuthrayaI don't use Dropbox frequently. In fact, I would prefer not to use it but work requires me to use it from time to time. My only use case was to upload files onto a shared folder. So for my usage, it makes no sense to run the desktop client and is quite painful to login to dropbox and get it done. So I wrote up a very simple dropbox uploader in python that can be used to upload files to a specific folder onto it.
Here's how you would use it to upload a local_file_to_upload.extension to a dropbox folder named db_folder:
$ python simple_db_uploader.py /db_folder local_file_to_upload.extension
Here is the script available (released in the public domain):
import requests
import json
import sys
import os
def exit_on_error(response):
print("Status Code: {0}".format(response.status_code))
print("Response: {0}".format(json.dumps(response.json(), indent=4)))
sys.exit(1)
def main():
access_token = "<access_token>"
upload_file = open(sys.argv[2], 'rb')
offset = 0
file_size = os.path.getsize(sys.argv[2])
chunk_size = 2 * 10**6
session_id = None
contents = upload_file.read(chunk_size)
response = requests.post(
"https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload_session/start",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer {0}".format(access_token),
"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"
},
data=contents
)
if not response.ok:
exit_on_error(response)
session_id = response.json()["session_id"]
offset = chunk_size
while offset <= file_size:
response = requests.post(
"https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload_session/append",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer {0}".format(access_token),
"Dropbox-API-Arg": json.dumps({
"session_id": session_id,
"offset": offset
}),
"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"
},
data=upload_file.read(chunk_size)
)
if not response.ok:
exit_on_error(response)
offset = offset + chunk_size
if offset != 0 and session_id is not None:
path_args = {
"cursor": {
"session_id": session_id,
"offset": file_size
},
"commit": {
"path": os.path.join(sys.argv[1], upload_file.name),
"mode": "overwrite",
"autorename": False
}
}
response = requests.post(
"https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload_session/finish",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer {0}".format(access_token),
"Dropbox-API-Arg": json.dumps(path_args),
"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"
}
)
if not response.ok:
exit_on_error(response)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
The only thing missing from this script is the access token on line 14. You need to create a dropbox app and assign the various permissions and create a test access token that has to be replaced in the above code and you are ready to go.
This script can be made zingy with tqdm to display a progress bar.
import requests
import json
import sys
import os
from tqdm import tqdm
def exit_on_error(response):
print("Status Code: {0}".format(response.status_code))
print("Response: {0}".format(json.dumps(response.json(), indent=4)))
sys.exit(1)
def main():
access_token = "<access_token>"
upload_file = open(sys.argv[2], 'rb')
offset = 0
file_size = os.path.getsize(sys.argv[2])
chunk_size = 2 * 10**6
session_id = None
contents = upload_file.read(chunk_size)
response = requests.post(
"https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload_session/start",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer {0}".format(access_token),
"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"
},
data=contents
)
if not response.ok:
exit_on_error(response)
session_id = response.json()["session_id"]
num_chunks = (file_size / chunk_size)
offset = chunk_size
for chunk in tqdm(range(num_chunks)):
response = requests.post(
"https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload_session/append",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer {0}".format(access_token),
"Dropbox-API-Arg": json.dumps({
"session_id": session_id,
"offset": offset
}),
"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"
},
data=upload_file.read(chunk_size)
)
if not response.ok:
exit_on_error(response)
offset = offset + chunk_size
if offset != 0 and session_id is not None:
path_args = {
"cursor": {
"session_id": session_id,
"offset": file_size
},
"commit": {
"path": os.path.join(sys.argv[1], upload_file.name),
"mode": "overwrite",
"autorename": False
}
}
response = requests.post(
"https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload_session/finish",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer {0}".format(access_token),
"Dropbox-API-Arg": json.dumps(path_args),
"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"
}
)
if not response.ok:
exit_on_error(response)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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