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I thought now that there's no Open in... anymore, I'd build a little UI/script to get files from Dropbox into Pythonista more easily:

→ Dropbox File Picker.py (GitHub)

It's pretty basic – once you've completed the setup (you need to configure some things in the Dropbox Dev Center), you'll get a list of folders and files in your Dropbox. You can drill down the folder hierarchy and download files one at a time. They're saved to the root folder of the Pythonista script library; if a file with the same name already exists, a numeric suffix is appended automatically. The UI could be prettier, but it gets the job done.

Thanks for this. One question. Why was losing "Open In" functionality such a big deal? I didn't frequently use it except to import the occasional PDF. I never really found any .py files to import using "Open In." It was mostly either copy/pasting or downloading from Github to import files.

Viruses and malware most likely.

Yeah, I guess, but all the apps in iOS are sandboxed by the kernel (which is kind of annoying sometimes) so any malware imported into Pythonista through "Open In" would be contained within the app package. I think Apple just implemented this to be fair to the other programming apps it removed "Open In" functionality from, like Codea. Just another one of Apple's paranoid restrictions....

@omz Thanks! It's very useful.

Thank you this is really helpful.

@omz Hi, hope you are fine! Can you please help me for the same to BOX account...

Has anyone done something similar for Box or Google Drive?

Dropboxsync.py gets the following error message:

App folder (sandbox) access attempt failed because this app is not configured to have an app folder. Should your access type be 'dropbox' instead?

What am I missing?

See OMZ's posts in http://omz-forums.appspot.com/pythonista/post/6675908186341376 You need to create a Dropbox app in order to get this to work. Go to http://dropbox.com/developers/apps to create one.

Hmm...I had already created an app at .../developers/app and File Picker works fine...it is dropboxsysnc that gets this message.

@ihf The file picker expects a Dropbox app that has full access, while the dropboxsync script uses the app folder approach, so you need to create two different Dropbox apps...

@omz OK, I created another Dropbox app with Permission type="app folder". However, I am getting the same error message from dropboxsync. Is there anything else I need to configure (besides providing the appropriate App key and App secret)?

I got it to work (needed to run dropboxlogin before running dropbox sync and then authorize the app on the web) However, each time I run dropboxsync, it downloads everything (or that's at least what it says), then uploads some files and then hangs. I run it again and it may get a little further before hanging. After numerous tries, I've yet to see it run to completion (and sync everything).

You might try putting console.set_idle_timer_disabled(True) at the top of the script to keep you device awake for the entire sync.

If it hangs with an exception, what error text gets printed?

I could try that except I touch the screen while it is running to make sure it doesn't sleep. I have now run it more than a dozen times and it will always run for awhile and seemingly finish downloading but never finishes uploading. There is no error message, just sits there until I kill Pythonista.

I added the console.set_idle_timer_disabled(True) and it did not help. I find that it can hang during the download or the upload process (more likely the latter) but it is as if Dropbox just stops responding for some reason.

Plug your iOS device into a power supply and let the sync run overnight.

I think I may have found the problem. DropboxSync does not seem to run (reliably) on an iPad mini 1. I ran it on an iPad 3 and it never paused and ran to completion the first time. Maybe the iPad mini is not fast enough to keep up with the Dropbox protocol? If so, perhaps the script could be altered to operate with a slower processor.

Hi, thanks for this. I have done everything and the script works fine and opens dropbox folder and etc. my only problem is that the pop up window is a tiny rectangle. How to fix this? (Using latest beta)

If you have the latest beta you shouldn't need this as there should be a cloud file picker in the dialogs module.

@lkred - here is how if fixed the tiny box issue ...

class DropboxView (ui.View):
    def __init__(self, path='/', height=400, width=400):
        tv = ui.TableView()
        self.frame = (0,0,width,height)
        tv.frame = self.frame
        self.flex = 'WH'
        tv.flex = self.flex
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w, h = ui.get_screen_size()
root_view = DropboxView(width=w/2,height=h/2)
root_view.present('sheet')
root_view.load_folder()

I made these changes to the Dropbox Picker but I am getting an error:

TypeError init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'width' on the 3rd to last line.

Where did I go wrong?

NM, I figured it out.

Hi everyone!
File picker throws error about wrong token although it’s 100% OK and previously everything worked fine.
Is it just me?
PS It seems that Dropbox API v1 is completely deprecated. Is there any options to use v2 API?

if you search the forums for dropbox api v2, or anything dropbox related in the last 6 months or so,myou should find several options that replace the depreciated dropbox module.