Create a Dropbox Application
To index content from Dropbox, you must create a Dropbox application to represent the connector.
NOTE: This procedure is subject to change. For information about creating a Dropbox application, refer to the Dropbox developer documentation.
To create a Dropbox application to represent the connector
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Create a Dropbox user account.
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Create the application to represent the connector.
- To ingest content from a standard Dropbox account, go to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps, click Create App, and then click Dropbox API app.
- To ingest content for users in a Dropbox for Business team, go to https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/apps/create/business and create an app with "Team member file access" permissions.
NOTE: When you create the application, ensure that the Redirect URL matches the location where you will run the OAuth configuration tool, for example
http://localhost:7878/
, as specified by theRedirectURL
parameter in the OAuth tool configuration fileoauth_tool.cfg
.
After you create the application, Dropbox will provide an application key and application secret.