You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
Check sync status of dropbox app, programmatically via c++ or api
I wonder if it is possible to tell when dropbox is syncing programmatically, ideally indirectly via c++ for example let's assume that when dropbox is syncing it writes a tinly .txt or .xml etc file...
I am currently using Windows SRV for this project unfortunately
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for sharing that additional information Здравко . Please note though that that socket itself is not officially documented and is not considered an officially supported API for third parties to use to interact with the Dropbox desktop client, so I can't recommend using it. (It's meant for the dropbox.py script we offer for managing the client on Linux via the CLI. One could technically program against the commands offered by that script, but it's not meant as a programmatic interface like the API is.)
:grinning::grin: May be that's a serious Dropbox drawback and have to be considered seriously. :wink:
- Greg-DB
Здравко Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I've filed this as a feature request for an official API for checking the client programmatically.
Hi Greg-DB,
I hope you can add to the feature request, "~/.dropbox/command_socket" related, also support for "~/.dropbox/iface_socket" socket. The second one isn't only available on Linux, but also on Mac. Documentation for, already available, interfaces would be helpful and could meet many applications in practice. :wink: These interfaces wasn't changed for least 4-5 years (might be more), so it's finally time to be documented (and got supported officially).
About Discuss Dropbox Developer & API
Make connections with other developers
