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Agreed. I am trying to see if this framework allows for a simple polling and synchronization of a particular dropbox to a unix system. That is, a simple way to clone my dropbox to any old unix system that is running their python code, and keeps it updated via the polling mechanism.

This is interesting because we (rsync.net) would then "freeze" that python app[1] (whatever it ends up being) and let users clone and sync a dropbox to their rsync.net account.

We already do this with s3cmd and git, and dropbox would be a nice addition.

[1] We don't allow interpreters (python, perl, shell) in our environment, so we have to "freeze" python to a binary exe.




If you're polling client-side for a single account, you should just be using longpoll_delta[1] and delta[2]. But maybe I misunderstood the use case?

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#longpoll-delta

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#delta




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