Dropbox watch files instant trigger

[Wouter_Noerens]

Hi,

I made an automation using the dropbox watch files module connecting it to Bubble.io.
The idea is to watch new files added to a folder, updating fields in a google sheets and taking existing google sheets data to make a database entry in bubble.io

We have the basics working but we’re burning through a lot of operations because this is not an instant trigger. Is there anyone here who has created a workaround using webhooks / dropbox api to start an automation whenever a file is added to dropbox?

I am not a coder myself and am hoping to find some insights in how this can be setup using make.com

Thanks in advance!

[Msquare_Automation]

Hi @Wouter_Noerens

Unfortunately, this is not possible with API. However, you can check the webhook possibility here:

Webhooks - Developers - Dropbox

The other idea is to create an appscript in a similar concept as explained below:

Trigger webhook on new file upload on Google Drive

Google Drive app on Make doesn’t offer an instant trigger on file uploads – so you either has to schedule your scenario and waste a lot of check runs or you do some other sourcery to trigger it on demand. Well… I’ve searched and found out a way to use Google Apps Script to do this recurrent check on a Google Drive folder – so it fires a Make webhook that you can then use to start your scenario. In order for this to work, go to script.google.com and create a new project. Paste in this code: /…

Instead of Google Drive, you need to authenticate Dropbox in appscript.

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[Marlon_Costa]

(I ADDED AN ANSWER TO MY QUESTION IN THE EDITS)

That’s really great, brother. Thanks for that.

I’d like to add a possibility into avoiding the issue of only checking for recently created/modified files.

As you can see in the image below, I move the files in Google Drive to another folder after using them.

This gives us a possibility to make this Google Script check ALL files in the folder. Do I make my self clear here?

So, tell me Msquare, how could we set the script to check all files, instead of only new files?

Changing “ScriptApp.newTrigger(‘checkForNewFiles’)” to “ScriptApp.newTrigger(‘checkForAllFiles’)” would be enough?

Looking forward for the answer :))))

EDIT: Found the answer. ChatGPT cleared the way for me