How to upload file in dropbox using nodejs

Posted By : Chandan Kumar Singh | 20-May-2016

nodejs

In this blog I am going to explain how to upload a file in dropbox, In my previous blog http://www.oodlestechnologies.com/blogs/How-to-create-a-folder-in-dropbox-using-nodejs we have created directory in which we are going to upload a video file. You can upload any file (pdf,document,jpg etc).

As we have two files called dropbox.js and drop.js, We are writing the methods to do real work in dropbox.js and calling this method from node.js

For uploading a file we will create a method called createFIle in dropbox.js file.

 createFile: function(path, content,cb) {
          options = {
            method: "POST",
            url: 'https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload',
            headers: {
              "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream",
              "Authorization": "Bearer " + access_token,
              "Dropbox-API-Arg": "{\"path\": \"/test/testDir/sample.mp4\",\"mode\": \"overwrite\",\"autorename\": true,\"mute\": false}",
            },
            body:content
          };
          request(options, function(err, res, body) {
            cb(err, res, body);
          });
    },

And in drop.js file add this piece of code.

 fs.readFile('/home/chandan/sample.mp4',function(err,content) { //for reading the local file 
      if(!err){
          api.createFile('test/testDir/sample.mp4',content , function(err, res, body){
            if(!err){
                   console.log("body: ",body);
  }
             });
           }
          });
      }
    });

Here we are first reading the local file called sample.mp4 and calling the createFile method which is taking the destination folder with file name as path.

Reference: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation

Thanks.