dropbox_to_jekyll

Create and update photo gallery on a Jekyll blog based on the contents of a Dropbox folder

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Dropbox to Jekyll

This is a little script I wrote that will ping your "/Public/Photos" folder on dropbox and import any photos it finds as posts with the "photo" layout into your Jekyll blog.

You can set it to ping once/minute (1440 times/day) and still be well under the rate limit of 5000/day.

It will even push to Github for you! Take a look at my Jekyll install's photos page for an example. To add a photo there, I can just drop it in "Public/Photos" from the Dropbox mobile app, and cron will pick it up within a minute and publish.

Right now it's fairly customized for my setup, but feel free to modify/hack it to your purposes. MIT license.

Dependencies

The script assumes you have redis running and that the 'dropbox' namespace is empty.

Gems:

git
redis
redis-namespace
dropbox_sdk

You'll also need a dropbox account (obviously).

Instructions

Install redis

Install the aformentioned gems

Create a Dropbox app

git clone https://github.com/andrewpbrett/dropbox_to_jekyll.git

Create a config.yml as follows:

app_key: YOUR_APP_KEY 
app_secret: YOUR_APP_SECRET 
access_token_key: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY 
access_token_secret: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET 
jekyll_path: PATH_TO_YOUR_JEKYLL_INSTALL

Then just run ruby import.rb

A word to the wise about using cron with RVM: You'll need to use the full path to your ruby in your cron file as cron does not read your .bashrc file. Do NOT get this path to your ruby as you might think, by running which ruby -- you'll want the ruby located at $rvm_path/bin, which is different (or was for me).