(VBScript) Dropbox: Access Your Own Account

To programmatically interact with your own Dropbox account, such as for uploading, downloading, listing files, etc., go to the Dropbox app console and create an application. Then generate an access token in the online app console as shown in the screenshot below. The access token does not expire, and can be used to access your own account from your own non-web application.

The example code, located below the screenshot, shows how to list the files in the root folder.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest")
set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect to the www.dropbox.com endpoint.
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("api.dropboxapi.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json")
success = rest.AddHeader("Authorization","Bearer DROPBOX-ACCESS-TOKEN")

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject")
set json = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
' The root folder should be an empty string, not "/"
success = json.AppendString("path","")
success = json.AppendBool("recursive",0)
success = json.AppendBool("include_media_info",0)
success = json.AppendBool("include_deleted",0)
success = json.AppendBool("include_has_explicit_shared_members",0)

responseStr = rest.FullRequestString("POST","/2/files/list_folder",json.Emit())
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Success is indicated by a 200 response status code.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    ' Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    outFile.WriteLine("response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    outFile.WriteLine("response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText)
    outFile.WriteLine("response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader)
    outFile.WriteLine("response body (if any): " & responseStr)
    outFile.WriteLine("---")
    outFile.WriteLine("LastRequestStartLine: " & rest.LastRequestStartLine)
    outFile.WriteLine("LastRequestHeader: " & rest.LastRequestHeader)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject")
set jsonResponse = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonResponse.Load(responseStr)

jsonResponse.EmitCompact = 0
outFile.WriteLine(jsonResponse.Emit())

' A sample JSON response is shown at the end of this example.
' The following code iterates over the entries.
numEntries = jsonResponse.SizeOfArray("entries")
i = 0
Do While i < numEntries
    jsonResponse.I = i
    outFile.WriteLine("----")
    outFile.WriteLine("name: " & jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].name"))
    outFile.WriteLine("path_lower: " & jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].path_lower"))
    outFile.WriteLine("path_display: " & jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].path_display"))
    If (jsonResponse.HasMember("entries[i].sharing_info") = 1) Then
        outFile.WriteLine("has sharing_info...")
        outFile.WriteLine("read_only: " & jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].sharing_info.read_only"))
        outFile.WriteLine("shared_folder_id: " & jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].sharing_info.shared_folder_id"))
    End If

    If (jsonResponse.HasMember("entries[i].client_modified") = 1) Then
        ' Demonstrate how to parse a date/time:
        ' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.CkDateTime")
        set ckdt = CreateObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")
        success = ckdt.SetFromTimestamp(jsonResponse.StringOf("entries[i].client_modified"))
        ' The date/time can now be converted to many other formats, or the individual parts
        ' can be accessed.
        bLocalDateTime = 1
        ' dt is a Chilkat.DtObj
        Set dt = ckdt.GetDtObj(bLocalDateTime)
        outFile.WriteLine(dt.Year & "-" & dt.Month & "-" & dt.Day)

    End If

    i = i + 1
Loop

outFile.WriteLine("Success.")

' {
'   "entries": [
'     {
'       ".tag": "folder",
'       "name": "chilkat Team Folder",
'       "path_lower": "/chilkat team folder",
'       "path_display": "/chilkat Team Folder",
'       "id": "id:2VqX9RLr-JAAAAAAAAAAAQ",
'       "shared_folder_id": "1210954290",
'       "sharing_info": {
'         "read_only": false,
'         "shared_folder_id": "1210954290"
'       }
'     },
'     {
'       ".tag": "file",
'       "name": "Get Started with Dropbox.pdf",
'       "path_lower": "/get started with dropbox.pdf",
'       "path_display": "/Get Started with Dropbox.pdf",
'       "id": "id:oxE2oMDqH4AAAAAAAAAAAQ",
'       "client_modified": "2016-05-07T11:47:47Z",
'       "server_modified": "2016-05-07T11:47:47Z",
'       "rev": "1483db13f",
'       "size": 692088
'     }
'   ],
'   "cursor": "AAEnZXciJyS4gzC_tlX6K2na4c8o7_09-dxmXKHpkPPyf3Kl0H4N-VYnz424nCrFOJuhMiM5_RgNAersumx9qe7NgCSdlppr80iFk0gf6vPlecM6SBtLcs6OYXL8ILWiZ62pfnOvgC3WKGlG6dqZ-VXH",
'   "has_more": false
' }
' 

outFile.Close