README.md

DropBox

Prerequisites

• Create account: https://www.dropbox.com/register

• Create new App: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps

  • Choose an API: Scoped access
  • Choose the type of access you need: Full Dropbox
  • Name your app: Mapswipe COCO

• Update Permission type

  • Go to the app settings
  • Click Scoped App
  • Select
    • files.metadata.read
    • files.content.write
    • files.content.read
    • sharing.write
    • sharing.read
  • Submit

• Generate new access token:

  • Go to the app settings
  • Click Generated access token

• Install uv on your system: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/

• Download the generate_coco_from_dropbox.py script

• Run the script

  # Help
  uv run generate_coco_dropbox.py --help
  
  # Sample
  uv run generate_coco_dropbox.py "DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN" "FOLDER_PATH_IN_DROPBOX" "DESTINATION_EXPORT_FILE_NAME_IN_DROPBOX"
  
  # Example
  uv run generate_coco_dropbox.py sl.yourAccessTokenHere “/COCO TEST” “coco_export.json”

• Download the coco_export.json from the dropbox