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AndrewRadchenko's avatar
AndrewRadchenko
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Upload zip file via Dropbox Api and curl

I'm trying to upload .zip file using

Curl request:

curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <Access Token>" \
--header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/upload.zip\"}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
--data-binary @/upload.zip

Uploading completed without errors. Downloading from another device (Ubuntu server) is also completed. But when I'm trying to unzip I get bellow error:

Archive:  upload.zip
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of upload.zip or
        upload.zip.zip, and cannot find upload.zip.ZIP, period.

Something is not correct in my curl upload configuration I guess. Probably, there are some special config to upload and download .zip files.

What I'm doing wrong? How to upload .zip file via dropbox api in the reight way?

 

 

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  • AndrewRadchenko's avatar
    AndrewRadchenko
    6 years ago

    As most of unworking situation, you have to check your code and syntax...

    1) file path shall be inside quotes: 

    --data-binary @"/upload.zip"

    2) download path shall start with slash:

    curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \
        --header "Authorization: Bearer <Token>" \
        --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/directory/upload.zip\"}" >>upload.zip

    Generaly it's a good idea to check, if downloaded zip file hase the right file size. If file size is not the same as in local storage so uploading was not finished successfully.  

  • AndrewRadchenko's avatar
    AndrewRadchenko
    New member | Level 2
    6 years ago

    As most of unworking situation, you have to check your code and syntax...

    1) file path shall be inside quotes: 

    --data-binary @"/upload.zip"

    2) download path shall start with slash:

    curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \
        --header "Authorization: Bearer <Token>" \
        --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/directory/upload.zip\"}" >>upload.zip

    Generaly it's a good idea to check, if downloaded zip file hase the right file size. If file size is not the same as in local storage so uploading was not finished successfully.  

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