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Dropbox API to create a file, write in it via stream and then close the file.
Hi,
I am from Softaculous Ltd. I already have an open issue but here I'm opening a new one which is regarding a different issue.
I have a query regarding Dropbox. We want our users to upload their backups (which will be .tar.gz file) on Dropbox. Now what we want is that we can create an empty file on Dropbox, add the content to it via stream (as in we can do via FTP using ftp:// stream) and then close the file.
I'm not able to find the related APIs. Can you please tell me about it?
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
To upload a file using the API, you can use the /2/files/upload endpoint:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload
That is a "Content-upload" style endpoint, so it expects the file contents in the request body, as documented in the "Request and response formats" section:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#formats
There's an example of uploading from PHP using curl here:
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/409/uploading-a-file/1354/uploading-a-file-via-curl-in-php#t=20170419174709470892
Exactly how you access the data on your local client is up to you. The API just requires that you pass up all of the file data in the request body.- Hi,
Thank you for your response.
But this would require uploading the file in one go whereas I want to upload a file in chunks, say, the file size is 500 MB but I want to upload it 100 MB at a time and next continue writing the next 100 MB from the place it left and so on. At the end we want to close the file- Greg-DBFor large files, or any files you want to upload in pieces, you should use upload sessions:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload_session-start
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload_session-append_v2
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload_session-finish
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