Transfer Dropbox Backups using Dropbox APIs
Thanks for your reply, however I tried many times but still only getting the folders and files in the root directory for the dropbox account but not the backups in dropbox backups
this is the script I am trying with if you can take a look:
import requests
import json
# Dropbox API credentials
DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN = "TOKEN"
DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN = (
"REFRESH_TOKEN"
)
APP_KEY = "APP_KEY"
APP_SECRET = "APP_SECRET"
# endpoints
DROPBOX_OAUTH2_TOKEN_URL = "https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token"
DROPBOX_LIST_FOLDER_URL = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder"
DROPBOX_TEAM_MEMBERS_URL = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/team/members/list"
# Refresh the access token using refresh token
def refresh_dropbox_token():
data = {
'grant_type': 'refresh_token',
'refresh_token': DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN,
'client_id': APP_KEY,
'client_secret': APP_SECRET
}
response = requests.post(DROPBOX_OAUTH2_TOKEN_URL, data=data)
if response.status_code == 200:
tokens = response.json()
return tokens['access_token']
else:
print("Error refreshing token:", response.text)
return None
# This is to list team members to choose which team member to work with
def list_dropbox_team_members():
global DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN
access_token = refresh_dropbox_token()
if access_token is None:
print("Failed to refresh Dropbox access token.")
return None
headers = {
'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
data = json.dumps({})
response = requests.post(DROPBOX_TEAM_MEMBERS_URL, headers=headers, data=data)
if response.status_code == 200:
members = response.json()
team_members = {}
for member in members['members']:
team_members[member['profile']['team_member_id']] = member['profile']['email']
print(f"User ID: {member['profile']['team_member_id']}, Email: {member['profile']['email']}")
return team_members
else:
print("Error listing team members:", response.text)
return None
# List Folders and Files in the Team member account
def list_dropbox_backups(selected_user_id):
global DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN
access_token = refresh_dropbox_token()
if access_token is None:
print("Failed to refresh Dropbox access token.")
return
headers = {
'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}',
'Dropbox-API-Select-User': selected_user_id,
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
data = json.dumps({
"path": "",
"recursive": False
})
response = requests.post(DROPBOX_LIST_FOLDER_URL, headers=headers, data=data)
if response.status_code == 200:
files = response.json()
for entry in files['entries']:
print(f"Name: {entry['name']}, Type: {entry['.tag']}")
else:
print("Error listing files:", response.text)
if __name__ == "__main__":
team_members = list_dropbox_team_members()
if team_members:
selected_email = input("Enter the email of the team member whose backups you want to list: ")
selected_user_id = None
for user_id, email in team_members.items():
if email == selected_email:
selected_user_id = user_id
break
if selected_user_id:
print(f"Listing backups for user: {selected_email} (User ID: {selected_user_id})")
list_dropbox_backups(selected_user_id)
else:
print(f"No team member found with the email: {selected_email}")
Please let me know if you found anything to be changed, also I attached a screen shot here to be in the same page which service for the backups I am talking about.
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