Good way to list the contents of a dropbox folder in php

[Johannes Ursus]

I would like to list (and later use) the contents of a specific dropbox folder. What would be the best way to do this? I have tried to write a scraper using curl to get the links but this seems very tedious. Is there a better way?

[Johannes Ursus]

This is the scraper that I have so far:

<?php

// Get drobox folder html.
$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mneh7sehw63cvk6/VcWEokE4yH' ); // Dropbox shared folder link
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (FM Scene 4.6.1)');
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'https://www.dropbox.com/');
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		   $html =curl_exec ($ch);
// extract links with DOMDocument
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
$links = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');
$processed_links = array();
foreach ($links as $link)
{
	if ($link->hasAttribute('class')&& $link->hasAttribute('href'))
	{
		foreach ($link->attributes as $a)
	  {
			if ($a->value=='filename-link')  
	   {
			$processed_links[$link->getAttribute('href')] = $link->getAttribute('href');
	   }

	  }

	}
}


echo var_dump($processed_links);




?>
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[ZakO]

Why are you scraping a webpage when Dropbox have an API?

edit; sorry, my mistake, after looking through the Dropbox API for some reason it seems like they have a call to access shared/public folders. :huh:

[Johannes Ursus]

  On 22/03/2013 at 18:18, ZakO said:

Why are you scraping a webpage when Dropbox have an API?

edit; sorry, my mistake, after looking through the Dropbox API for some reason it seems like they have a call to access shared/public folders. :huh:

I found it's odd that they don't allow to simply list a directory like this without OAuth.

I managed to put together something with the scraper to get all images and txt files and display them. Seems to work ok :

<?php

// Get drobox folder html.
$folder = 'https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mneh7sehw63cvk6/VcWEokE4yH'; // Dropbox shared folder link
$ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $folder);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (FM Scene 4.6.1)');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'https://www.dropbox.com/');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		   $html =curl_exec ($ch);
// extract links with DOMDocument
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
$links = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');
$processed_links = array();
foreach ($links as $link)
{
    if ($link->hasAttribute('class')&& $link->hasAttribute('href'))
    {
	    foreach ($link->attributes as $a)
	  {
		    if ($a->value=='filename-link')   
	   {
		    $processed_links[$link->getAttribute('href')] = $link->getAttribute('href');
	   }

	  }

    }
}

$exts = $processed_links;
foreach ($exts as $ext)
{
    $url = $ext;

    $path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);

    $ext2 = pathinfo($path, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);

    // echo "<br> <a href=https://dl.dropbox.com$path>http://dl.dropbox.com$path</a

if ($ext2 == 'jpg')
{
echo "<br> <a href=https://dl.dropbox.com$path><imghhttps://dl.dropbox.com$path></img></a
  //echo $path;
}
if ($ext2 == 'txt')
{
  $first = "https://dl.dropbox.com";

$ch2 = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_URL, $first.$path); // textfile
    curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (FM Scene 4.6.1)');
    curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'https://www.dropbox.com/');
    curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
    curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
    curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		   $str =curl_exec ($ch2);
  //echo preg_replace('!\r?\n!', '<br>', $str);
echo '<pre>';
echo preg_replace('!\r?\n!', '<br>', $str);
echo '</pre>';
}
}

?>
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[Kami-]

You can get this info out of the API ;)