[Public] Python Dropbox Indexer

First steps:

1. Register a dropbox account
2. Create a folder with the following name :
   Public
3. Upload the style folder to the Public folder.
   /style/style.css

Installation:

• Create a ./bin directory in your home directory

   cd ~
   mkdir .bin
   cd ./bin
  

• Download the PDI

  wget https://github.com/bor-attila/python-indexer/archive/master.zip

• Unzip

  unzip master.zip

• Create a (soft) link in ./bin

  ln -s python-indexer-master/ppdi_vX.X.X/ppdi.py pdi

First index

The PDI comes before the first index, it will open your webbrowser, and you will need to give permission to the PDI to index your dropbox. If this permission will be denied the PDI won't index your dropbox.

After the first successful indexing, the PDI will not ask permission again, so you can use it with crontab. (Don't forget to use -q for quiet mode, or use > /dev/null)

Arguments

usage: ppdi.py [-h] [-l LANG] [-a] [-d DISABLER] [-s STYLEDIR] [-o] [-q]

optional arguments:

-h, --help

shows a help message

-l LANG, --lang LANG

Selected language in LanguageCode_Country format. eg: en_US

-a, --all

Indexing of folders.Each folder will appear on the generated HTML page. (Ignoring the disabler.)

-d DISABLER, --disabler DISABLER

It sets the prefix of the folder which is to be excluded from indexing. For example, if you do not want to share a directory from the Public dir, just rename the directory in a way that the first character should be the disabler. The dafult disabler is "." . eg: .mydir will be excluded from indexing.

-s STYLEDIR, --styledir STYLEDIR

The style directory in the Dropbox which contains the CSS stylesheet. You can put here images,js,css files as well. The style directory is automatically excluded from indexing.

-o, --openbrowser

It automatically opens the index.html from the root directory

-q, --quiet

No output

FAQ:

Run python pdi -h for more help