Why is the developer page behind a log-in wall?

How could you develop for Dropbox without an account?

Google can't index things behind a login wall (as far as we know...).

It's also just sort of annoying (you may have a dropbox account but not be logged in at the moment on the device you're using) and unnecessary.

It's easy enough to not require the login wall for certain user agents (such as GoogleBot).

Granted, it would be easier and better to not have it the first place.

Google frowns on treating its not differently than a regular user. And the googlebot doesn't always identify itself as such.

I don't have an account but I'm still curious. If the API is interesting enough, it might be worth signing up.

Yeah, finally a usable filesystem for my iPad :)

Considering that there are already lots of apps that support Dropbox, I believe that Apple couldn't have done the company a bigger favor. Wonder how many percent of downloads go to mobile devices…

Quick hacker poll: what services are you thinking of building with this API?

I'm probably going to make a simple todo list app with it.

I want a todo list that I can edit with emacs, but that I also have available to me everywhere.

Basically, you'd have a Dropbox folder with as many files as you want, each of which would be a list. The files would just be a series of lines (probably prefixed with a * so it looks better as a text file)

I've thought about just doing this and using the Dropbox app on my phone, but I want a slightly prettier interface on my phone and the ability to edit on my phone.

Check out MobileOrg

That is awesome. I was thinking something like that might happen.

Unfortunately, I just switched to Android. But maybe I'll just port it :)

A photo album site.

I've been waiting for a follow up to my ticket for exactly 1 month for "Request for Mobile Access Key flag for application", despite numerous email requests for an update.

I've been waiting about 2 weeks I think. No clue where we're at with that.

API pages look really informative. Looking forward to seeing what cool features will be added to other apps.

@jrnkntl I can also recommend icloud.com/mobile for the iPad. It's Read-only but it feels really nice. You can upload using Drop-on-Window using Chrome or Firefox.

Can anyone sum up what I can do with this API? I have some guesses, but there's no summary of what the capabilities are, and I don't want to parse through the 10+ page "getting started" guide to figure it out...

Everything is done with HTTP requests (duh), if you want to upload a file then you make an HTTP POST request with the file data (just like with a normal file upload form) and the associated meta-data. The servers then process the file and give you links back to access it.

Fetching files will be processed similar to a download, php will "fetch" the file and then write it to disk. Then php can move or rename it via its functions.

Renaming, copying, and deleting files are all done with a single http request with a relevant response code (pass, fail, more info needed...).

Really, it's pretty simple and the included libraries seem to cover everything that most apps will need.

Check out the first couple bullet points on the "About the API" page:

> Simple HTTP+JSON method of accessing a user's information in a user approved sandbox on the user's desktop. List, upload, delete, move, copy, and get files as well as many other features... A full event callback API allowing you to get simple asynchronous events to your web site or service whenever the user changes their sandbox.

Top three apps I would love to see this integrate with: 1. Omnifocus 2. Textexpander (better than at the moment) 3. Clyppan

Dropbox, you all deserve a beer.

nah, what are those stupid apis for anyways? always done this kind of stuff with wireshark and handmade POSTs/GETs ...