Other popular Dropbox workflows and automations
- Save National Geographic Photo of the Day to DropBox
- Automatically back up your new Android photos to Dropbox
- When I arrive to work, record the time and location in a text file in Dropbox.
- Sync new files added to Dropbox to OneDrive
- Upload pictures from Dropbox folder to Flickr
- Wordpress to Dropbox
- Take a note
- Astronomy wallpapers in your Dropbox
- Save the top posts in Reddit's r/wallpapers to Dropbox and automatically change your Mac's desktop
Useful Dropbox and Google Forms integrations
Triggers (If this)
- New file in your folderThis Trigger fires every time any file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- New form responseThis trigger fires when a new form response is received.
- Any new shared file linkThis trigger fires every time a shared link for a file is created. Note: doesn't include folders.
- New or updated form responseThis trigger fires when a new form response is received or updated.
- New text file in your folderThis Trigger fires every time any text file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- New photo in your folderThis Trigger fires every time a photo is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 photos per polling period.
Queries (With)
- History of photos in your folderThis query returns a list of every time a photo is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 photos per polling period.
- History of files in your folderThis query returns a list of every time any file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- History of text files in your folderThis query returns a list of every time any text file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- Find file by nameThis query returns a list of files searched by name you specify.
- File metadataThis query returns the metadata of a file.
- List shared file linksThis query returns all shared file links. Note: doesn't include folders.
Actions (Then that)
- Revoke shared linkThis action will revoke the direct link to the file. Note: the file may still be accessible if there are shared links leading to any of the file parent folders.
- Add file from URLThis Action will download a file at a given URL and add it to Dropbox at the path you specify. NOTE: 30 MB file size limit.
- Move file or folderThis action will move a file or a folder to new location.
- Create a text fileThis Action will create a new text file at the path you specify.
- Append to a text fileThis Action will append to a text file as determined by the file name and folder path you specify. Once a file’s size reaches 2MB a new file will be created.
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