watermint toolbox - The multi-purpose utility command-line tool for web services

dropbox team feature

Display all features and capabilities enabled for your Dropbox team account, including API limits and special features

Shows team’s enabled features, beta access, and API rate limits. Check before using advanced features or planning integrations. Features may vary by subscription level. Useful for troubleshooting feature availability issues.

Security

watermint toolbox stores credentials into the file system. That is located at below path:

OS Path
Windows %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\secrets (e.g. C:\Users\bob.toolbox\secrets)
macOS $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /Users/bob/.toolbox/secrets)
Linux $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /home/bob/.toolbox/secrets)

Please do not share those files to anyone including Dropbox support. You can delete those files after use if you want to remove it. If you want to make sure removal of credentials, revoke application access from setting or the admin console.

Please see below help article for more detail:

  • Dropbox for teams: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/third-party/business-api#manage

Auth scopes

Description
Dropbox for teams: View basic information about your team including names, user count, and team settings

Authorization

For the first run, tbx will ask you an authentication with your Dropbox account. Please copy the link and paste it into your browser. Then proceed to authorization. After authorization, Dropbox will show you an authorization code. Please copy that code and paste it to the application.


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1. Visit the URL for the auth dialogue:

https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&response_type=code&state=xxxxxxxx

2. Click 'Allow' (you might have to login first):
3. Copy the authorization code:
Enter the authorization code

Installation

Please download the pre-compiled binary from Latest Release. If you are using Windows, please download the zip file like tbx-xx.x.xxx-win.zip. Then, extract the archive and place tbx.exe on the Desktop folder. The watermint toolbox can run from any path in the system if allowed by the system. But the instruction samples are using the Desktop folder. Please replace the path if you placed the binary other than the Desktop folder.

Usage

This document uses the Desktop folder for command example.

Run

Windows:

cd $HOME\Desktop
.\tbx.exe dropbox team feature 

macOS, Linux:

$HOME/Desktop/tbx dropbox team feature 

Note for macOS Catalina 10.15 or above: macOS verifies Developer identity. Currently, tbx is not ready for it. Please select “Cancel” on the first dialogue. Then please proceed “System Preference”, then open “Security & Privacy”, select “General” tab. You may find the message like:

“tbx” was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer.

And you may find the button “Allow Anyway”. Please hit the button with your risk. At second run, please hit button “Open” on the dialogue.

Options:

-peer
Account alias. Default: default

Common options:

-auth-database
Custom path to auth database (default: $HOME/.toolbox/secrets/secrets.db)
-auto-open
Auto open URL or artifact folder. Default: false
-bandwidth-kb
Bandwidth limit in K bytes per sec for upload/download content. 0 for unlimited. Default: 0
-budget-memory
Memory budget (limits some feature to reduce memory footprint). Options: low, normal. Default: normal
-budget-storage
Storage budget (limits logs or some feature to reduce storage usage). Options: low, normal, unlimited. Default: normal
-concurrency
Maximum concurrency for running operation. Default: Number of processors
-debug
Enable debug mode. Default: false
-experiment
Enable experimental feature(s).
-extra
Extra parameter file path
-lang
Display language. Options: auto, en, ja. Default: auto
-output
Output format (none/text/markdown/json). Options: text, markdown, json, none. Default: text
-output-filter
Output filter query (jq syntax). The output of the report is filtered using jq syntax. This option is only applied when the report is output as JSON.
-proxy
HTTP/HTTPS proxy (hostname:port). Please specify DIRECT if you want to skip setting proxy.
-quiet
Suppress non-error messages, and make output readable by a machine (JSON format). Default: false
-retain-job-data
Job data retain policy. Options: default, on_error, none. Default: default
-secure
Do not store tokens into a file. Default: false
-skip-logging
Skip logging in the local storage. Default: false
-verbose
Show current operations for more detail.. Default: false
-workspace
Workspace path

Results

Report file path will be displayed last line of the command line output. If you missed the command line output, please see path below. [job-id] will be the date/time of the run. Please see the latest job-id.

OS Path pattern Example
Windows %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\jobs\[job-id]\reports C:\Users\bob.toolbox\jobs\20190909-115959.597\reports
macOS $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports /Users/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports
Linux $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports /home/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports

Report: feature

Team feature The command will generate a report in three different formats. feature.csv, feature.json, and feature.xlsx.

Column Description
upload_api_rate_limit The number of upload API calls allowed per month.
upload_api_rate_limit_count The number of upload API calls made this month.
has_team_shared_dropbox Does this team have a shared team root.
has_team_file_events Team supports file events
has_team_selective_sync Team supports selective sync
has_distinct_member_homes Team has distinct member home folders

If you run with -budget-memory low option, the command will generate only JSON format report.

In case of a report becomes large, a report in .xlsx format will be split into several chunks like follows; feature_0000.xlsx, feature_0001.xlsx, feature_0002.xlsx, …

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