docker-dropbox-app

🐳 Docker synchronization container for Dropbox using a token app

When your docker is ready, all files and folders will be sync in realtime. A watchdog check every time if a file or folder is created, deleted or modified, and will be update your dropbox folder.

If you add in your root a file .dropboxignore you can select witch type of file or folder you want exclude, look like your git repository.

Start with docker

To use this docker is really easy:

1. Create your App in dropbox
2. Generated refresh token by using init_dropbox_refreshToken.sh script.
3. Pull this docker

docker pull rbonghi/dropbox

4. Run your docker

docker run \
-e DROPBOX_APP_KEY=<WRITE YOUR APPLICATION KEY HERE> \
-e DROPBOX_APP_SECRET=<WRITE YOUR APPLICATION SECRET HERE> \
-e DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN=<WRITE YOUR REFRESH TOKEN HERE>  \
-v <FOLDER YOU WANT SYNC>:/dropbox rbonghi/dropbox

Start with docker-compose

How to start up the docker-dropbox app machine:

1. Create your App in dropbox
2. Generated refresh token by using init_dropbox_refreshToken.sh script.
3. Write your docker-compose.yml file or add:

version: '3'
services:
  dropbox:
    image: rbonghi/dropbox:latest
    environment:
      - PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
      - DROPBOX_APP_KEY=<WRITE YOUR APPLICATION KEY HERE>
      - DROPBOX_APP_SECRET=<WRITE YOUR APPLICATION SECRET HERE>
      - DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN=<WRITE YOUR REFRESH TOKEN HERE>
    volumes:
      - <FOLDER YOU WANT SYNC>:/dropbox

4. Start your docker:

docker-compose up

Configuration

You have two option to run the dropboxsync:

• --inverval [Default: 10s] Interval refresh folder from Dropbox
• --fromLocal Will be overwriten from your PC follder to Dropbox
• --fromDropbox Will be overwriten from Dropbox to your PC folder
• --verbose Show all debug messages

To select this option you can run the docker machine adding:

docker run -e DROPBOX_TOKEN=<WRITE YOUR TOKEN HERE> -v <FOLDER YOU WANT SYNC>:/dropbox dropbox --fromDropbox

or

version: '3'
services:
  dropbox:
    image: rbonghi/dropbox:latest
    command: ["--fromDropbox", "-i", "120"]
    environment:
      - PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
      - DROPBOX_APP_KEY=<WRITE YOUR APPLICATION KEY HERE>
      - DROPBOX_APP_SECRET=<WRITE YOUR APPLICATION SECRET HERE>
      - DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN=<WRITE YOUR REFRESH TOKEN HERE>
    volumes:
      - <FOLDER YOU WANT SYNC>:/dropbox

Start without docker

If you want launch this script without start a docker container:

python dbsync \ 
--rootdir <ROOT_FOLDER> \
--folder <DROPBOX_FOLDER> \
--appKey <WRITE YOUR APP KEY HERE> \
--appSecret <WRITE YOUR APP SECRET HERE> \
[options]

For [options]:

• --verbose Show in detail all steps for each sync
• --fromLocal or --fromDropbox Read Configuration
• --interval [default=60s] The Interval to sync from Dropbox in --fromDropbox mode
• --refreshToken Set the refresh token retrieved and logged in the console at first launch or via the init_script. (This will avoid the manual acceptation step via a generated access code in the navigator)