Intro to Dropbox APIs
Leah Culver, Developer Advocate
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Safe and secure
Wherever you are
Share with friends
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Basic Pro Business
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Dropbox APIs
400M+ users
70% of whom are outside the US
300,000+ apps using Dropbox APIs
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Past Dropbox hack winners
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Paratrooper
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Droplock
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Matter
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New! API v2
Drop-ins
Core API
Dropbox for Business API
Dropbox APIs
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API v2
new! improved!
• REST-ish, OAuth 2.0, JSON
• SDKs for Python, Swift, .NET, HTTP
• not quite done… soon!
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API v2
dropbox.com/developers-preview
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API v2
• User data
/users/get_account
• Get metadata
/files/get_metadata
• List folder
/files/list_folder
• Upload file
/upload
• Get a thumbnail
/get_thumbnail
• Search (new in v2!)
/search
… and more!
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Drop-ins
just a few lines of code!
• choose a file from Dropbox
• JavaScript, iOS, Android
• save a file to Dropbox
• JavaScript
Chooser
Saver
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Core API
HTTP API for files
• SDKs for Python, Ruby, PHP, Java,
Android, iOS, and OS X
• Community supported libraries for
JavaScript, C#, Perl, and more
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Dropbox for Business API
business apps
admin capabilities:
• team member management
• group management
• reports and audit log
• act on behalf of team members