Dropbox API for mobile & web apps

Today Dropbox announced an API for mobile and web apps.

From a security standpoint this sounds great:

You’ll never have to enter your Dropbox account info into a third-party app on version 1. Instead, you’ll approve access using the official Dropbox app on mobile or via the web at dropbox.com.

And this.

Version 1 adds support for apps that can only read or write to a single folder in your Dropbox.

Authentication is not sent to third party apps, and you can selectively limit access to a single folder which prevents exposing all of your Dropbox data. Hellofax is one example of this kind of integration—they offer the option of receiving faxes as PDFs that can be routed to a Dropbox folder.

More detailed info for developers at dropbox.com/developers.

Posted: October 21st, 2011
Filed under: Development, File Sharing & Storage, Free (or low-cost), Mobile, Security & Privacy Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

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