Dropbox

Ingest your files into Unstructured from Dropbox.

The requirements are as follows.

1. A Dropbox account. Get an account.

2. A target source or destination folder in your Dropbox account. Create a folder.

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

4. 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>.

5. An access token for your Dropbox account. Get a token. 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.