In the talk on the Remote Files interface (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPKR1mH0pdI) one of the plugins mentioned is the Dropbox one. This requires a Dropbox Access Token. How does I get such a thing to allow Galaxy to interact with my Dropbox account?
Thanks!
Peter
Answering my own question, I came up with a way to do this but based on the Dropbox OAuth Guide I strongly believe that this is not following best practice on the Dropbox side so do not use these instructions unless you really know what you are doing.
Anyway, after logging in to Dropbox I went to the App creation page and create a new app with these settings:
Then at the next page, grant the newly created app files.metadata.read and files.metadata.write permissions and click Submit to accept these changes:
Back on the Settings tab, select the Access token expiration (for my demo I set it to “No expiration” even though this is going to go away soon because the Python filesystem plugin doesn’t support renewing short lived tokens even though long-lived tokens are deprecated). Finally generate a token and copy this to the correct area of your preferences (User menu → Preferences → Manage information)
The error message generated when this setting is correct (Problem listing file source path FileSourcePath(file_source=, path='/')) is definitely not user friendly but hopefully this reply provides some guidance on how to configure this plugin. No doubt details will change in future to accommodate the shift to short lived tokens.
Thanks a lot Peter for the detailed description of your solution.
I just tried this and I was so close, but I am not able to find the dropbox access token window under User menu - Preferences. Does anyone know where to copy the token?
Has this maybe been described somewhere else now?
I have hundreds of bam files on my dropbox and it would be really inconvenient if I had to download them and then upload them to galaxy. I was really hoping to directly connect Galaxy with my dropbox.
Thanks a lot,
Alex
