dropboxorganize.py

# I use the Dropbox iPhone app, and I love it - automatically backing up my photos to the cloud? Great! 
# However, automatic uploads from your camera roll go to "Camera Uploads". If, like me, you can often
# forget to go in and sort your photos for a while, pretty soon there's so much in there it becomes slow
# to load. Use this script from the command line to move your photos in to a folder named "Unsorted Photos
# By Date" (you can change that on line 75 by setting basefolder) with subfolders for YEAR and then MONTH.
# Run this manually whenever things get out of hand, or have it running as a cron job or similar to automatically
# stay on top of things.

# You'll need the Dropbox Python SDK installed, as well as Colorama (pip install colorama)

import dropbox
import json
import sys, getopt
from colorama import init, Fore, Back, Style
init(autoreset=True)

def main(argv):
  # Get your app key and secret from the Dropbox developer website
  app_key = 'YOUR_APP_KEY_HERE'
  app_secret = 'YOUR_APP_SECRET_HERE'

  flow = dropbox.client.DropboxOAuth2FlowNoRedirect(app_key, app_secret)

  # Have the user sign in and authorize this token
  authorize_url = flow.start()
  print '1. Go to: ' + authorize_url
  print '2. Click "Allow" (you might have to log in first)'
  print '3. Copy the authorization code.'
  code = raw_input("Enter the authorization code here: ").strip()

  # This will fail if the user enters an invalid authorization code
  access_token, user_id = flow.finish(code)

  # You may tire of doing the above each time you run it. You can always
  # Copy the access token that comes back the first time and hardcode it
  # Here to save time. If you do that, comment out lines 22 - 32
  print 'Your Access Token: ' + access_token
  #access_token = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE'

  client = dropbox.client.DropboxClient(access_token)
  print 'linked account: ', client.account_info()
                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  #defaults
  createFolders = 1 # Attempt to create folder for year/month as we go through
  fullerrors = 0 # Print out all errors, including those that have been handled ok

  try:
    # Set up the ability to handle command line arguments
    opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv, "hde", ["--disable-folder-creation", "--show-full-errors"])
  except getopt.GetOptError:
    print "python dropboxorganize.py"
    sys.exit(2)
  for opt, arg in opts:
    # -h will show help
    if opt == '-h':
      print "python dropboxorganize.py"
      print "Optional:"
      print "-d --disable-folder-creation Don't create folders (speeds up script if folders exist already) Default: Create folders"
      print "-e --show-full-errors  Show full error information (can be noisy) Default: Don't show full errors"
      sys.exit(2)
    elif opt in ("-d", "--disable-folder-creation"):
      # -d or --disable-folder-creation will skip the creation of the folders
      # this is useful if the folders were manually created or we already ran this script
      # as the execution will be faster
      createFolders = 0
    elif opt in ("-e", "--show-full-errors"):
      # -e or --show-full-errors will show the full error messages, including errors like "could not
      # create folder - folder exists" which will be common.
      fullerrors = 1

  # Always nice to summarize the affected files, so lets keep a count of how many we move
  movedfiles = 0

  # Name of your folder (from the root level of your Dropbox) that you wish to house the unsorted photos
  basefolder = '/Unsorted Photos By Date'
  # Collection of years to include
  years = ['2014', '2015', '2016']
  # The 12 months of the year in a collection
  months = ['01', '02', '03', '04', '05', '06', '07', '08', '09', '10', '11', '12']

  for year in years:
    sectionheaderneeded = 1 #Only print out the Year / Month header if there are files to move in that year & month
    for month in months:
      monthheaderneeded = 1
      if createFolders:
        try:
          response = client.file_create_folder(basefolder + '/' + year + '/' + month)
        except dropbox.rest.ErrorResponse as e:
          if fullerrors:
            print '# ERROR creating folder (' + basefolder + '/' + year + '/' + month + '):'
            print '# ' + str(e.error_msg)
      try:
        search = year + '-' + month
        target = basefolder + '/' + year + '/' + month
        print '# Search for /Camera Uploads/' + search + ' move to ' + target
        data = client.search('/Camera Uploads', search)
        for x in data:
          a = json.dumps(x)
          b = json.loads(a)
          o = b["path"]
          n = b["path"].replace('/Camera Uploads', target)
          try:
            if sectionheaderneeded:
              print '--------------------------------------------------------------------------------'
              print '# ' + year
              print '# '
              sectionheaderneeded = 0
            if monthheaderneeded:
              print '# Month: ' + month + ' -------------------------------------------------------------------'
              monthheaderneeded = 0                                                                                                                                                              
            print '# ' + Fore.GREEN + 'Move ' + o + ' to ' + n
            moveOp = client.file_move(o,n)
            movedfiles += 1
          except dropbox.rest.ErrorResponse as e:
            print '# ' + Fore.RED + 'ERROR moving file ' + o + ' to ' + n + ':'
            print '# ' + Fore.RED + str(e)
      except dropbox.rest.ErrorResponse as e:
        print '# ' + Fore.RED + 'ERROR in search (' + search + '):'
        print '# ' + Fore.RED + str(e)

  print '--------------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  print '# SUMMARY'
  print '# ' + Fore.BLUE + str(movedfiles) + ' Files moved to ' + basefolder
  print '--------------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  print ''
  print 'Goodbye!'

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main(sys.argv[1:])