Dropbox Service

Author: Oliver S (kamikaze28)

Description

Requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) +

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

Installation

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

• 10.6 Snow Leopard: `~/Library/Services/`
  
• 10.5 Leopard: `~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder/` (create these folders if necessary)

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.dropbox.com/u/'''7925'''/Post%20to%20Dropbox.zip

Note: The script is designed to work with your Dropbox in the default location. If your Dropbox resides in a different place, consult the attached readme for instructions on how to change the script to work properly.

Usage

Right-click on a file or folder (in Finder, Mail, ...) and select 'Move/Copy to Dropbox' from the contextual menu. (Note: On 10.5 Leopard the new actions will be underneath `More › Automator` in the contextual menu.) Files will be put into your Dropbox public folder, auto-synched and the URLs to these files will be put in to the clipboard. In the case of folders, the URLs of all the files within the folders will be copied to 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, 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:
# dropbox_id = '7925'

dropbox_id = '<DROPBOX-ID>'

copied_files = []

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

pasteURLs = [];

for file in copied_files: # for all elements in our list
    components = file.split(os.sep)    # seperate the path
    local_dir = os.path.join(components[5:])    # cut off the beginning
    local_dir = urllib.quote(local_dir) # convert it to a URL (' ' -> '%20', etc.)
    #construct the URL
    finalURL = 'http://dl.dropbox.com/u/%s/%s' % ( dropbox_id, local_dir )
    pasteURLs.append(finalURL) # add the current URL to the string

copy_string = "\n".join(pasteURLs)

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

Links

Download  dl.dropbox.com/u/7925/Post%20to%20Dropbox.zip

Optional

To have the links in your clipboard force a download, add '?dl' to this line in the python scripts:

   finalURL = 'http://dl.dropbox.com/u/%s/%s' % ( dropbox_id, local_dir )

would become:

   finalURL = 'http://dl.dropbox.com/u/%s/%s?dl' % ( dropbox_id, local_dir )