

You have to proceed with the verification in order to create your own Dropbox App. For this you should use a valid e-mail address that you have access to because you will have to verify that e-mail address later on.Īfter logging in with your new account you can visit the app creation page where you are requested to verify your e-mail address. Register your Accountįirst of all you need to register a Dropbox account.

So here are 5 simple steps to use the Dropbox API. Because of this simplicity I decided to write a short blog post about it. But I did not know how easy it actually was to use the Dropbox API. I had never used Dropbox nor the Dropbox API but felt that it should not be all too difficult. The first service that came to my mind was Dropbox.

So I searched for an easy file storage service. To share the files I needed a place to store them, but I did not feel like storing them on the actual server. But I tried whether sharing files would be possible. I declined because sharing files is nothing that the service is meant to be there for. What I did not write about was that one user asked if a file-sharing option could be added. A few weeks ago I wrote about the new cryptographic basis of the Shared-Secrets service.
