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NAME

WebService::Dropbox - Perl interface to Dropbox API

SYNOPSIS

use WebService::Dropbox;

my $dropbox = WebService::Dropbox->new({
    key => '...', # App Key
    secret => '...' # App Secret
});

# get access token
if (!$access_token or !$access_secret) {
    my $url = $dropbox->login or die $dropbox->error;
    warn "Please Access URL and press Enter: $url";
    <STDIN>;
    $dropbox->auth or die $dropbox->error;
    warn "access_token: " . $dropbox->access_token;
    warn "access_secret: " . $dropbox->access_secret;
} else {
    $dropbox->access_token($access_token);
    $dropbox->access_secret($access_secret);
}

my $info = $dropbox->account_info or die $dropbox->error;

# download
# https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#files
my $fh_get = IO::File->new('some file', '>');
$dropbox->files('make_test_folder/test.txt', $fh_get) or die $dropbox->error;
$fh_get->close;

# upload
# https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#files_put
my $fh_put = IO::File->new('some file');
$dropbox->files_put('make_test_folder/test.txt', $fh_put) or die $dropbox->error;
$fh_put->close;

# filelist(metadata)
# https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#metadata
my $data = $dropbox->metadata('folder_a');

DESCRIPTION

WebService::Dropbox is Perl interface to Dropbox API

- Support Dropbox v1 REST API

- Support Furl (Fast!!!)

- Streaming IO (Low Memory)

- Default URI Escape (The specified path is utf8 decoded string)

API

login(callback_url) - get request token and request secret

my $callback_url = '...'; # optional
my $url = $dropbox->login($callback_url) or die $dropbox->error;
warn "Please Access URL and press Enter: $url";

auth - get access token and access secret

$dropbox->auth or die $dropbox->error;
warn "access_token: " . $dropbox->access_token;
warn "access_secret: " . $dropbox->access_secret;

account_info

my $info = $dropbox->account_info or die $dropbox->error;

# {
#     "referral_link": "https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/r1a2n3d4m5s6t7",
#     "display_name": "John P. User",
#     "uid": 12345678,
#     "country": "US",
#     "quota_info": {
#         "shared": 253738410565,
#         "quota": 107374182400000,
#         "normal": 680031877871
#     },
#     "email": "john@example.com"
# }

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#account-info

files(path, output, [params]) - download (no file list, file list is metadata)

# Current Rev
my $fh_get = IO::File->new('some file', '>');
$dropbox->files('folder/file.txt', $fh_get) or die $dropbox->error;
$fh_get->close;

# Specified Rev
$dropbox->files('folder/file.txt', $fh_get, { rev => ... }) or die $dropbox->error;

# output is fh or code ref.

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#files-GET

files_put(path, input) - upload

my $fh_put = IO::File->new('some file');
$dropbox->files_put('folder/test.txt', $fh_put) or die $dropbox->error;
$fh_put->close;

# no overwrite (default true)
$dropbox->files_put('folder/test.txt', $fh_put, { overwrite => 0 }) or die $dropbox->error;
# create 'folder/test (1).txt'

# Specified Parent Rev
$dropbox->files_put('folder/test.txt', $fh_put, { parent_rev => ... }) or die $dropbox->error;
# conflict prevention

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#files_put

copy(from_path, to_path)

$dropbox->copy('folder/test.txt', 'folder/test_copy.txt') or die $dropbox->error;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#fileops-copy

move(from_path, to_path)

$dropbox->move('folder/test.txt', 'folder/test_move.txt') or die $dropbox->error;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#fileops-move

delete(path)

# folder delete
$dropbox->delete('folder') or die $dropbox->error;

# file delete
$dropbox->delete('folder/test.txt') or die $dropbox->error;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#fileops-delete

create_folder(path)

$dropbox->create_folder('some_folder') or die $dropbox->error;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#fileops-create-folder

metadata(path, [params]) - get file list

my $data = $dropbox->metadata('some_folder') or die $dropbox->error;

my $data = $dropbox->metadata('some_file') or die $dropbox->error;

# 304
my $data = $dropbox->metadata('some_folder', { hash => ... });
return if $dropbox->code == 304; # not modified
die $dropbox->error if $dropbox->error;
return $data;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#metadata

revisions(path, [params])

my $data = $dropbox->revisions('some_file') or die $dropbox->error;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#revisions

restore(path, [params])

# params rev is Required
my $data = $dropbox->restore('some_file', { rev => $rev }) or die $dropbox->error;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#restore

search(path, [params])

# query rev is Required
my $data = $dropbox->search('some_file', { query => $query }) or die $dropbox->error;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#search

shares(path, [params])

my $data = $dropbox->shares('some_file') or die $dropbox->error;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#shares

media(path, [params])

my $data = $dropbox->media('some_file') or die $dropbox->error;

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#media

thumbnails(path, output)

my $fh_get = File::Temp->new;
$dropbox->thumbnails('folder/file.txt', $fh_get) or die $dropbox->error;
$fh_get->flush;
$fh_get->seek(0, 0);

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#thumbnails

AUTHOR

Shinichiro Aska

SEE ALSO

- https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.