Upload Files to Dropbox and Generate Direct Download Links — n8n 工作流

复杂度 触发器14 个节点🏷️ File Management作者:Anthony

概览

How It Works This sub-workflow uploads files to Dropbox and returns a direct download link:

Upload file - Receives file from parent workflow and uploads to Dropbox Check for existing link - Queries Dropbox API to see if a shared link already exists for this file Create or reuse link - If no link exists, creates a new public shared link; otherwise uses existing one Convert to direct link - Transforms Dropbox's standard sharing URL (dropbox.com) into a direct download URL (dl.dropboxusercontent.c

使用的节点

DropboxHTTP Request

工作流预览

Upload & Path Processing
1. Read Binary File: Reads file from local filesystem
2. Upload a file: Uploads to Dropbox using OAuth2
3. Normalize Path: Prepares path for sharing API calls
Sharing Link Management
1. List Shared Links: Check if link already exists
2. Get Existing linlk (if any)
3. IF Node: Branch based on link existence
5. Get Access Token for shared
Direct Link Processing
1. Rewrite Host: Process existing links
2. Build Direct Link: Convert Shared to direct download
3. Success Response: Return final formatted direct down
Sample code to upload and host on dropbox
This works on both remote and local installs of N8N
Input: the file we are hosting on DropBox.
Output: the direct shared link in Dropbox.
To Do For
Test workflow
Copy this out to its own workflow then run it to test t
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When Executed by Another…
N
Normalize Path1
Dropbox: Create Shared L…
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If: Link Exists?
E
Extract Existing Link
Dropbox: List Shared Links
R
Rewrite Dropbox Host
B
Build Direct Link
F
Final Response
Upload a file
G
Get DropBox access token
U
Upload File
C
Completed
C
Call '[SUB] Dropbox uplo…
14 nodes13 edges

工作原理

  1. 1

    触发器

    工作流由 触发器 触发器启动。

  2. 2

    处理

    数据流经 14 个节点, connecting datatable, dropbox, executeworkflow。

  3. 3

    输出

    工作流完成自动化并将结果发送到配置的目标。

节点详情 (14)

DR

Dropbox

dropbox

#1
HT

HTTP Request

httpRequest

#2

如何导入此工作流

  1. 1点击右侧 下载 JSON 按钮保存工作流文件。
  2. 2打开你的 n8n 实例,依次点击 工作流 → 新建 → 从文件导入
  3. 3选择下载的 upload-files-to-dropbox-and-generate-direct-download-links 文件并点击导入。
  4. 4为每个服务节点配置 凭证(API 密钥、OAuth 等)。
  5. 5点击 测试工作流 验证一切正常,然后激活它。

或直接在 n8n → 从 JSON 导入 中粘贴:

{ "name": "Upload Files to Dropbox and Generate Direct Download Links", "nodes": [...], ...}

集成

datatabledropboxexecuteworkflowexecuteworkflowtriggerformtriggerhttprequestifset

获取此工作流

一键下载并导入

下载 JSON在 n8n.io 上查看
节点14
复杂度medium
触发器trigger

创建者

Anthony

Anthony

@usascholar

标签

datatabledropboxexecuteworkflowexecuteworkflowtriggerformtriggerhttprequestifset

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