dropbox API v2 upload large files using python

Question

I'm trying to upload big file (~900MB) via Dropbox API v2 but I'm getting this error:

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(104, 'Connection reset by peer'))

It works ok with smaller files.

I found in documentation that I need to open upload session using files_upload_session_start method but I have an error on this command and I can't go further with ._append methods.

How can I solve this problem? There're no info in docs. I'm using Python 3.5.1 and latest dropbox module installed using pip.

Here's code which I'm running to:

c = Dropbox(access_token)
f = open("D:\Programs\ubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64.iso", "rb")
result = c.files_upload_session_start(f)
f.seek(0, os.SEEK_END)
size = f.tell()
c.files_upload_session_finish(f,     files.UploadSessionCursor(result.session_id, size), files.CommitInfo("/test900.iso"))

Answer 1

For large files like this, you'll need to use upload sessions. Otherwise, you'll run in to issues like the error you posted.

This uses the Dropbox Python SDK to upload a file to the Dropbox API from the local file as specified by file_path to the remote path as specified by dest_path. It also chooses whether or not to use an upload session based on the size of the file:

import os

from tqdm import tqdm

import dropbox


def upload(
    access_token,
    file_path,
    target_path,
    timeout=900,
    chunk_size=4 * 1024 * 1024,
):
    dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(access_token, timeout=timeout)
    with open(file_path, "rb") as f:
        file_size = os.path.getsize(file_path)
        chunk_size = 4 * 1024 * 1024
        if file_size <= chunk_size:
            print(dbx.files_upload(f.read(), target_path))
        else:
            with tqdm(total=file_size, desc="Uploaded") as pbar:
                upload_session_start_result = dbx.files_upload_session_start(
                    f.read(chunk_size)
                )
                pbar.update(chunk_size)
                cursor = dropbox.files.UploadSessionCursor(
                    session_id=upload_session_start_result.session_id,
                    offset=f.tell(),
                )
                commit = dropbox.files.CommitInfo(path=target_path)
                while f.tell() < file_size:
                    if (file_size - f.tell()) <= chunk_size:
                        print(
                            dbx.files_upload_session_finish(
                                f.read(chunk_size), cursor, commit
                            )
                        )
                    else:
                        dbx.files_upload_session_append(
                            f.read(chunk_size),
                            cursor.session_id,
                            cursor.offset,
                        )
                        cursor.offset = f.tell()
                    pbar.update(chunk_size)