Post to Dropbox Service

Author: Oliver Stengele (kamikaze28)

Description

Requires Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

These services will appear in every contextual menu of files. You are now just 2 clicks away from posting something to Dropbox!

Usage Instructions

INSTALLATION

• Drag 'Move to Dropbox.workflow' and/or 'Copy to Dropbox.workflow' to

  • ~/Library/Services/

  Open the workflows in Automator and edit the Python script (in the block 'run shell-script) Change value of

  • dropboxID = '<DROPBOX-ID>'

  To your ID. For example, look at the download link at the bottom of this page - you can see my Dropbox-ID there:

  • http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/7925/Post%20to%20Dropbox.zip

  Just look at one of your public links to find your Dropbox-ID.

USAGE

• Right-click on a file or folder (in Finder, Mail, ...) and select 'Move/Copy to Dropbox' from the contextual menu. Files will be put into your Dropbox public folder, auto-synched and the URLs to these files will be put in the clipboard. In the case of folders, there will be URLs to all the files it containes in the clipboard. Files of the same name will not be replaced. If you want to change this, you can edit the 'Move/Copy Finder items'-block in the workflow (there is a checkmark to enable 'overwrite existing files').

SOURCE CODE

• Here is the Python script, that converts files and folders into the public links.

import os, sys, string, urllib

# Enter your Dropbox ID here. If a public link form you looks like
# http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/7925/Post%20to%20Dropbox.zip
# your Dropbox-ID is 7925 and this line has too look like this:
# dropboxID = '7925'

dropboxID = '<DROPBOX-ID>'

listOfFiles = []

for count in range(1, len(sys.argv)) : #for all input arguments
        if(os.path.isdir(sys.argv[count])) : # if it is a directory
                for root, dirs, files in os.walk(sys.argv[count]) : #traverse it
                        for file in files : #and for every file
                                if(not file.startswith(".")) : #if it isn't a hidden file
                                        currFile = root + os.sep + file # compose the path
                                        listOfFiles.append(currFile) # and add it to our list
        if(os.path.isfile(sys.argv[count])) : # if it is a file
                if(not sys.argv[count].startswith(".")) : #if it isn't a hidden file
                        listOfFiles.append(sys.argv[count]) # just append it to the list

pasteURLs = '';

for count in range(0, len(listOfFiles)) : # for all elements in our list
        components = string.split(listOfFiles[count], os.sep)   # seperate the path
        localDir = string.join( components[5:], os.sep )        # cut off the beginning
        localDir = urllib.quote(localDir) # convert it to a URL (' ' -> '%20', etc.)
        #construct the URL
        finalURL = 'http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/%s/%s' % ( dropboxID, localDir )
        if len(pasteURLs) > 1: # if this is not the first URL to be added
                pasteURLs = pasteURLs + "\n" # insert a line break
        pasteURLs = pasteURLs + finalURL; # add the current URL to the string

os.system( "echo '%s' | pbcopy" % (pasteURLs) ) # put the string into clipboard

Links

Download http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/7925/Post%20to%20Dropbox.zip

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