pibooth-dropbox 0.0.1

Pibooth plugin to upload pictures on Dropbox.

pibooth-dropbox is a plugin for the pibooth application.

Its permits to upload the pictures to a Dropbox folder. It requires an internet connection.

Install

$ pip3 install pibooth-dropbox

Configuration

Here below the new configuration options available in the pibooth configuration. The keys and their default values are automatically added to your configuration after first pibooth restart.

[DROPBOX]

# Dropbox folder where pictures are uploaded. Subfolders can be separated by /
album_name = Pibooth

# Refresh-Token for the dropbox api
token =

# Dropbox Application Key
app_key =

# Dropbox Application Password
app_secret =

Note

Edit the configuration by running the command pibooth --config.

Picture URL

Uploaded picture URL is set to app.previous_picture_url attribute at the end of processing state (state_processing_exit hook).

Grant secured access

The upload part was mainly taken und adapted from the Dropbox Api example updown.py from the dropbox-sdk-python https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/master/example/updown.py

Description on how to create a dropbox app is described here for a Gravity app, but it can be used to create any other custom app: https://docs.gravityforms.com/creating-a-custom-dropbox-app/

Description on how to create a refresh token and how to implement this into a python code is very good described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70641660/how-do-you-get-and-use-a-refresh-token-for-the-dropbox-api-python-3-x