Static site generator using content synced from Dropbox.

$ pip install dropcms

Set the following environmental variables:

dropcms will render markdown files one folder deep in DROPBOX_ROOT_FOLDER. If there's an index.md file in any folder, it will act as the index of the folder. Otherwise, dropcms will render a unordered list of the pages in the folder as the folder index.

For example, if the DROPBOX_ROOT_FOLDER is set to my_content and the folder structure is as follows:

~/Dropbox/my_content/index.md
~/Dropbox/my_content/file1.md
~/Dropbox/my_content/folder1/file2.md
~/Dropbox/my_content/folder1/file3.md
~/Dropbox/my_content/folder1/folder2

file2.md, file3.md will be rendered but file1.md and folder2 will be ignored. The root index of the site will be read from index.md but the index of folder1 will be automatically generated.

Note: to sync with S3, you must have AWS configured. See here for instrucitons.

$ fab sync

Build static files locally:

dropcms build -s config.json -o _build

Run the site locally (to test):

dropcms run -s config.json -u 0.0.0.0:5000

JSON file containing settings. Parameters:

• dropbox_root: the folder within your Dropbox to load content from
• dropbox_token: API token. Generate a Dropbox API token that has access to your account (see here for instructions). Alternatively, the token can be set as the environmental variable DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN
• S3_bucket The S3 buck to sync content with
• redis_url (Optional) to reduce the amount of time it takes to refresh the data, set up Redis caching by setting the URL here