Use python to link Dropbox fully automated in a text based Linux environment

link_dropbox.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import subprocess
from signal import *
import re
import getpass
import urllib2
import time


COMMAND_TEXT = "./.dropbox-dist/dropbox"


def Login(email, password):
  email = urllib2.quote(email)
  password = urllib2.quote(password)
  pLogin = subprocess.Popen('curl -c dropboxCookies https://www.dropbox.com/login', shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT)
  v = pLogin.stdout.read()
  t = re.search('name="t" value="(.*?)"', v).group(1)
  print('Retrieved session cookies...');

  pLogin = subprocess.Popen('curl -b dropboxCookies -c dropboxCookies -d t=%s -d login_email=%s -d login_password=%s -d login_submit=Log+in https://www.dropbox.com/login' % (t, email, password), shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT)
  v = pLogin.stdout.read()

  pLogin = subprocess.Popen('curl -b dropboxCookies -c dropboxCookies https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id=%s' % (host_id), shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT)
  v = pLogin.stdout.read()
  t = re.search('name="t" value="(.*?)"', v).group(1)

  pLogin = subprocess.Popen('curl -b dropboxCookies -d t=%s -d password=%s https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id=%s' % (t, password, host_id), shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT)
  v = pLogin.stdout.read()
  print('Link procedure done, waiting for dropbox response...');


os.system("killall dropbox")
if(os.path.exists(os.path.expanduser("~/.dropbox"))):
  print("Maybe your client has linked.")
  exit(1)

p = subprocess.Popen(COMMAND_TEXT, shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT)
host_id = ""
while(True):
  line = p.stdout.readline()
  if(line.find("Client successfully linked") >= 0):
    print("ALL DONE!")
    break
  if host_id: continue
  match = re.search('host_id=(.*?)&', line)
  if(match):
    host_id = match.group(1)
    print("Input your email : ")
    email = raw_input()
    password = getpass.getpass("Enter your password : ")
    Login(email, password)

time.sleep(3)
p.send_signal(SIGINT)
p.wait()