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Created January 11, 2013 15:45
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Export all your drops from CloudApp using this quick Ruby script
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# A quick script to download all your files from CloudApp.
# To run this just run the script passing your e-mail & password
# to the script, for example:
#
# gem install cloudapp_api
# ruby cloudapp-export.rb adam@atechmedia.com mypassword
#
EMAIL_ADDRESS = ARGV[0]
PASSWORD = ARGV[1]
ROOT = File.expand_path('../cloudapp-export', __FILE__)
PER_PAGE = 50
require 'fileutils'
require 'cloudapp_api'
CloudApp.authenticate(EMAIL_ADDRESS, PASSWORD)
FileUtils.mkdir_p(ROOT)
returned_drops = nil
page = 1
until returned_drops && returned_drops < PER_PAGE
drops = CloudApp::Drop.all(:per_page => PER_PAGE, :page => page)
puts "Getting Page: #{page}"
for drop in drops
time = Time.parse(drop.created_at)
directory = File.join(ROOT, time.year.to_s, time.month.to_s, time.day.to_s)
FileUtils.mkdir_p(directory)
path = File.join(directory, drop.name)
if File.exist?(path)
puts " -> Skipping #{drop.name} (it already exists)"
else
puts " -> Downloading #{drop.name}"
File.open(path, 'w') { |f| f.write(drop.raw) }
end
end
page += 1
returned_drops = drops.size
end
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rebyn commented Feb 24, 2013

Nifty. Would love to have options like downloading images only. And incremental filename of existing drops also :(.

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Strajk commented Aug 24, 2013

File could not be created if name of the drop contains : character
But thanks for great work!

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cggaurav commented May 1, 2022

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/json-1.8.6/lib/json/common.rb:155:in `parse': 822: unexpected token at '<!DOCTYPE html> (JSON::ParserError)

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