Net::Dropbox::API(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Net::Dropbox::API(3)

Net::Dropbox::API - A dropbox API interface

Version 1.9.8

The Dropbox API is a OAuth based API. I try to abstract as much away as possible so you should not need to know too much about it. This is how it works:

use Net::Dropbox::API;
my $box = Net::Dropbox::API->new({key => 'KEY', secret => 'SECRET'});
my $login_link = $box->login;  # user needs to click this link and login
$box->auth;                    # oauth keys get exchanged
my $info = $box->account_info; # and here we have our account info

See the examples for a working Mojolicious web client using the Dropbox API.

You can find Dropbox's API documentation at https://www.dropbox.com/developers/web_docs

This sets up the initial OAuth handshake and returns the login URL. This URL has to be clicked by the user and the user then has to accept the application in dropbox.

Dropbox then redirects back to the callback URL defined with "$self->callback_url". If the user already accepted the application the redirect may happen without the user actually clicking anywhere.

The auth method changes the initial request token into access token that we need for subsequent access to the API. This method only has to be called once after login.

account_info polls the users info from dropbox.

lists all files in the path defined:

$data = $box->list();           # top-level
$data = $box->list( "/Photos" ); # folder

The data returned is a ref to a hash containing various fields returned by Dropbox, including a "hash" value, which can be used later to check if Dropbox data beneath a specified folder has changed since the last call.

For this, list() accepts an optional 'hash' argument:

$data = $box->list({ hash => "ce9ccbfb8f255f234c93adcfef33b5a6" },
                   "/Photos");

This will either return

{ http_response_code => 304 }

in which case nothing has changed since the last call, or

{ http_response_code => 200,
  # ... various other fields
}

if there were modifications.

copies a folder
copy($from, $to)

move a folder
move($from, $to)

creates a folder
mkdir($path)

delete a folder
delete($path)

creates a cookie protected link for the user to look at.
view($path)

creates a cookie protected link for the user to look at.
metadata($path)

uploads a file to dropbox

get a file from dropbox

Set this to a non-false value in order to print some debugging information to STDOUT.
debug(1)

_talk handles the access to the restricted resources. You should normally not need to access this directly.

Generate a different nonce for every request.

Lenz Gschwendtner, "<norbu09 at cpan.org>"

With Bug fixes from:

Greg Knauss "gknauss at eod.com"

Chris Prather "chris at prather.org"

Shinichiro Aska

[ktdreyer]

SureVoIP http://www.surevoip.co.uk

Please report any bugs through the web interface at https://github.com/norbu09/Net--Dropbox/issues. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Net::Dropbox::API

You can also look for information at:

Copyright 2010 Lenz Gschwendtner.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

2024-09-01 perl v5.40.0