Dropbox Stream

Upload & Download streams for Dropbox

Install

npm i dropbox-stream

Usage

Upload

Uploads stream to dropbox using upload session API

Events order:

1. progress
2. metadata

const db = require('dropbox-stream');

const TOKEN = 'put your dropbox token here';
const FILETOUPLOAD = '/some/file.txt';

const up = db.createDropboxUploadStream({
    token: TOKEN,
    path: '/test/' + path.basename(FILETOUPLOAD),
    chunkSize: 1000 * 1024,
    autorename: true,
    mode: 'add'
  })
  .on('error', err => console.log(err))
  .on('progress', res => console.log(res))
  .on('metadata', metadata => console.log('Metadata', metadata))

fs.createReadStream(FILETOUPLOAD).pipe(up)
  .on('finish', () => console.log('This fires before metadata!'))

Download

Downloads to stream from dropbox.

Events order:

1. metadata
2. progress

const db = require('dropbox-stream');

const TOKEN = 'put your dropbox token here';
const FILETODOWNLOAD = '/some/file.txt';
const FILETODOWNLOADTO = './file.txt';

db.createDropboxDownloadStream({
    token: TOKEN,
    path: FILETODOWNLOAD
  })
  .on('error', err => console.log(err))
  .on('metadata', metadata => console.log('Metadata', metadata))
  .on('progress', res => console.log(res))
  .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(FILETODOWNLOADTO))
  .on('finish', () => console.log('Done!'));

If you want to download a file from shared link use:

db.createDropboxDownloadStream({
  token: TOKEN,
  url: 'sharedlink',
  path: 'optional file path if shared link is for a folder'
})

License MIT