Dropbox

Ingest your files into Unstructured from Dropbox.

The requirements are as follows.

• A Dropbox account.

• A target source or destination folder in your Dropbox account.

• A Dropbox app for your Dropbox account. To learn how to create an app, click the App Console tab on the Getting Started page.

• Permission for your Dropbox app to read from, and write to, the target folder in your Dropbox account as needed. To do this:

  • On the Permissions tab of your Dropbox app, check the boxes files.content.read or files.content.write or both. Learn more.
  • On the Settings tab of your Dropbox app, for App folder name, set the name of the target folder in your Dropbox account for your Dropbox app to have access to.
  • Note the remote URL to the target folder, which takes the format dropbox://<path/to/folder/in/account>.

• An access token for your Dropbox account. Save this token in a secure location. Do not share it with others.

To create or change a Dropbox source connector, see the following examples.

Replace the preceding placeholders as follows:

• <name> (required) - A unique name for this connector.
• <token> - The value of your access token
• <remote-url> - The remote URL to the target folder
• Set recursive to true to recursively process data from subfolders within the target folder. The default is false if not otherwise specified.

To change a connector, replace <connector-id> with the source connector’s unique ID. To get this ID, see List source connectors.