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