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Dropbox is a file hosting service that brings everything-traditional files, cloud content, and web shortcuts together in one place. This notebook covers how to load documents from Dropbox. In addition to common files such as text and PDF files, it also supports Dropbox Paper files.

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Prerequisites

  1. Create a Dropbox app.
  2. Give the app these scope permissions: files.metadata.read and files.content.read.
  3. Generate access token: www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create.
  4. pip install dropbox (requires pip install "unstructured[pdf]" for PDF filetype).

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Instructions

`DropboxLoader“ requires you to create a Dropbox App and generate an access token. This can be done from www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create. You also need to have the Dropbox Python SDK installed (pip install dropbox). DropboxLoader can load data from a list of Dropbox file paths or a single Dropbox folder path. Both paths should be relative to the root directory of the Dropbox account linked to the access token. 
pip install dropbox

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Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.16.2 in /Users/rbarragan/.local/share/virtualenvs/langchain-kv0dsrF5/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from dropbox) (2.31.0)
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Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import DropboxLoader

# Generate access token: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create.
dropbox_access_token = "<DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN>"
# Dropbox root folder
dropbox_folder_path = ""

loader = DropboxLoader(
    dropbox_access_token=dropbox_access_token,
    dropbox_folder_path=dropbox_folder_path,
    recursive=False,
)

documents = loader.load()

File /JHSfLKn0.jpeg could not be decoded as text. Skipping.
File /A REPORT ON WILES’ CAMBRIDGE LECTURES.pdf could not be decoded as text. Skipping.

for document in documents:
    print(document)
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