Dropbox

7 min

Dropbox is a cloud-based file hosting app that enables users to store, synchronize, and share files and folders across multiple devices.

With the Dropbox app in Make, you can manage the files and folders in your Dropbox account.

Requirements

To use the Dropbox app in Make, you must have a Dropbox account.

Connect Dropbox and Make

To create the connection:

Optional: In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.

Optional: Switch on Advanced settings and enter your Dropbox client credentials. For more information on how to obtain your credentials, refer to the Dropbox OAuth Guide.

If requested, use the following Redirect URI when setting up your client credentials: https://www.integromat.com/oauth/cb/dropbox/

Click Save.

If prompted, authenticate your account and confirm access.

You've successfully created the connection and can now use the Dropbox app in your scenarios. If you want to make changes to your connection in the future, follow the steps here.

Dropbox modules

After connecting to the Dropbox app, you can use the following types of modules to build your scenarios.

Watch Files

This module can retrieve and monitor up to 4000 files. If the total number of files exceeds this limit, newly added files beyond the first 4000 may not be detected.

To watch for more files, consider moving your files to a new folder and watching the files from that folder.

Unable to upload or update a file

There are several situations when uploading or updating a file fails:

The uploaded file is too big and exceeds the maximum file size allowed for your Dropbox plan or you have used all of your Dropbox account's storage quota. You will either need to delete existing files from your Dropbox account or upgrade your plan.

The previously selected folder, to which the file is being uploaded to, no longer exists. The scenario gets stopped and you will need to select the target folder again.

Unable to access Root folder in Dropbox

If you have a “Personal/Individual" pricing plan with Dropbox, then writing to the root directory of Dropbox is allowed via the API. However, if you upgrade to a “Teams” pricing plan with Dropbox, writing to the root directory of Dropbox via the API is no longer allowed.

Image referenced via a shared link does not render

The URL returned by the Dropbox > Create a shared link does not link directly to an image, but to a Dropbox page - see https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/force-download for further details. To force the image to download, replace the trailing ?dl=0 with ?dl=1. To force the image to render (e.g. in a Web browser or in Facebook Messenger), append &raw=1 to the URL.

If you need to get the direct/raw link of your image which you can use for your website or for other Make modules you need to modify the initial shared URL in the following way:

Let's say your initial URL is:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ia8qtvs20f3a5ux/Screen%20Shot%202018-10-15%20at%204.21.11%20PM.png?dl=0

replace www with dl

remove ?dl=0

Your final URL should be:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ia8qtvs20f3a5ux/Screen%20Shot%202018-10-15%20at%204.21.11%20PM.png

To do it automatically, use the replace() function twice:

to replace www with dl

and

to remove ?dl=0

To do it in one step, combine these functions:

You can use this code. Just copy it and paste it into the field and replace variable with the URL.

Templates

You can look for Dropbox templates in Make's template gallery, where you'll find thousands of pre-created scenarios.

Dropbox resources

Dropbox API documentation