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 the source connector:

1. On the sidebar, click Connectors.
2. Click Sources.
3. Cick New or Create Connector.
4. Give the connector some unique Name.
5. In the Provider area, click Dropbox.
6. Click Continue.
7. Follow the on-screen instructions to fill in the fields as described later on this page.
8. Click Save and Test.

Fill in the following fields:

• Name (required): A unique name for this connector.
• Data URL (required): The URL to the target Dropbox directory, starting with dropbox://.
• Recursive (source connector only): Check this box to also process all subfolders and their files within the directory.
• Access token : A Dropbox access token for the target account.