Introducing `dbxcli`: A command line for Dropbox
Cross-platform tool for users and administrators to interact with Dropbox
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2 min readAug 5, 2016
TL;DR
Download pre-compiled binaries for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Background
- Ever wanted to quickly upload/download some files, search for something in your Dropbox on a computer where you don’t have Dropbox installed?
- Ever tried to download a large file/folder (> 2-GB) from the Dropbox website only to find that the download fails?
- Ever wanted to quickly script team management (e.g. add a bunch of emails to your team) or your shared links (e.g. list all shared links and revoke them)?
Then dbxcli is for you! It is a cross-platform command-line tool to interact with Dropbox, targeted at both end users and team administrators.
Nuts and Bolts
`dbxcli` was built using the Go SDK for Dropbox:
We need your help
dbxcli is under active development! We would love feedback from you, our users, to guide what to build next and how to improve the tool.
So please, file feature requests, report bugs or better yet, send us pull requests! More on contributing below.
Contributing
- Step 1: If you’re submitting a non-trivial change, please fill out the Dropbox Contributor License Agreement first.
- Step 2: send a pull request
- Step 3: Profit!