Export bulk Dropbox image folder URLs

sharmanhall

The problem is that there are hundreds of photos. It is almost impossible to enter the URL for each rock sample manually. I need some automated way to copy the Dropbox photo URLs. You can use my script below to generate bulk Dropbox links.

* Requires TamperMonkey or GreaseMonkey addon in your browser.

 

I wrote a script to accomplish this:

https://gist.github.com/tyhallcsu/89d6c672f93e94cbd651354b587306b4

This is a userscript that extracts image URLs from a Dropbox page and copies them to the clipboard when a button is clicked. The script creates a button on the page that, when clicked, scrolls to the bottom of the page, waits for new images to load, and extracts the image URLs. The script then joins the URLs into a string separated by newlines. It then puts the links on your clipboard with ?dl=0 replaced with ?raw=1 parameters.


Floating button in the bottom right of your browser window:

Code:

// ==UserScript==
// @"name" Extract All Dropbox Image URLs in Folder to Clipboard
// @namespace https://www.example.com/
// @version 3
// @description Extracts image URLs from a Dropbox page and copies them to the clipboard when a button is clicked.
// @author Tyler Hall Tech
// @"match" https://www.dropbox.com/*
// @"Grant" GM_setClipboard
// @"Grant" GM_log
// @"run"-at document-idle
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
'use strict';

const SECONDS_TO_WAIT_FOR_SCROLL = 1; // adjust as needed
const DOWNLOAD_URL_REPLACEMENT = '?raw=1';

// function to get all image link elements
function getImageLinks() {
const imageLinks = document.querySelectorAll('a.dig-Link.sl-link--file[href*="dl=0"]');
return Array.from(imageLinks).map(link => link.getAttribute('href').replace(/\?dl=0$/, DOWNLOAD_URL_REPLACEMENT));
}

// function to scroll to the bottom of the page and wait for new images to load
async function waitForImagesToLoad() {
window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, SECONDS_TO_WAIT_FOR_SCROLL * 1000));
}

// create an array to hold the image URLs
let imageUrls = [];

// add a button to the page that will copy the image URLs to the clipboard when clicked
const copyButton = document.createElement('button');
copyButton.classList.add('dig-Button', 'dig-Button--primary', 'dig-Button--standard', 'copy-urls-button');
copyButton.textContent = 'Copy all URLs';
copyButton.style.position = 'fixed';
copyButton.style.bottom = '20px';
copyButton.style.right = '20px';
copyButton.style.zIndex = '9999';
document.body.appendChild(copyButton);

// add a click event listener to the button
copyButton.addEventListener('click', async function() {
let finished = false;
let numUrls = 0;
while (!finished) {
// scroll to the bottom of the page and wait for new images to load
await waitForImagesToLoad();

// get the newly loaded image URLs
const newImageUrls = getImageLinks().filter(url => !imageUrls.includes(url));
imageUrls.push(...newImageUrls);

// check if all images have been loaded
finished = newImageUrls.length === 0;

numUrls += newImageUrls.length;
}

// join the image URLs into a string separated by newlines
const imageUrlString = imageUrls.join('\n');

// copy the image URL string to the clipboard
GM_setClipboard(imageUrlString, 'text');

// disable the button and change the text to indicate that the URLs have been copied
copyButton.disabled = true;
copyButton.textContent = `${numUrls} URL(s) copied to clipboard`;

// enable the button again after 3 seconds
setTimeout(function() {
imageUrls = [];
copyButton.disabled = false;
copyButton.textContent = 'Copy all URLs';
}, 3000);
});
})();

 

Hope this helps someone. I hope Dropbox natively supports this some day. But for now, this works just fine 🙂

sharmanhall

Oh, I followed this guide : https://freegistutorial.com/how-to-generate-bulk-dropbox-links-on-microsoft-excel/ and that's how I got the inspiration to write the Userscript. It does the same thing as this guide but MUCH quicker.