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Useful Dropbox and Hacker News integrations
Triggers (If this)
- New top storyThis trigger fires every time a Hacker News story becomes a top story.
- New file in your folderThis Trigger fires every time any file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- New best storyThis trigger fires every time a Hacker News story becomes a best story.
- Any new shared file linkThis trigger fires every time a shared link for a file is created. Note: doesn't include folders.
- New Ask HN storyThis trigger fires every time a new Ask Hacker News story is posted.
- New text file in your folderThis Trigger fires every time any text file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- New Show HN storyThis trigger fires every time a new Show Hacker News story is posted.
- New photo in your folderThis Trigger fires every time a photo is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 photos per polling period.
- New job postedThis trigger fires every time a new job is posted to Hacker News.
- New story by userThis trigger fires every time a new story is posted by the user you specify.
- New comment by userThis trigger fires every time a new comment is posted by the user you specify.
Queries (With)
- History of Show HN storiesThis query returns a list of every time a new Show Hacker News story is posted.
- History of photos in your folderThis query returns a list of every time a photo is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 photos per polling period.
- History of best storiesThis query returns a list of every time a Hacker News story becomes a best story.
- History of files in your folderThis query returns a list of every time any file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- History of jobs postedThis query returns a list of every time a new job is posted to Hacker News.
- History of text files in your folderThis query returns a list of every time any text file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- History of top storiesThis query returns a list of every time a Hacker News story becomes a top story.
- Find file by nameThis query returns a list of files searched by name you specify.
- History of stories by userThis query returns a list of every time a new story is posted by the user you specify.
- File metadataThis query returns the metadata of a file.
- History of comments by userThis query returns a list of every time a new comment is posted by the user you specify.
- List shared file linksThis query returns all shared file links. Note: doesn't include folders.
- History of Ask HN storiesThis query returns a list of every time a new Ask Hacker News story is posted.
Actions (Then that)
- Revoke shared linkThis action will revoke the direct link to the file. Note: the file may still be accessible if there are shared links leading to any of the file parent folders.
- Add file from URLThis Action will download a file at a given URL and add it to Dropbox at the path you specify. NOTE: 30 MB file size limit.
- Move file or folderThis action will move a file or a folder to new location.
- Create a text fileThis Action will create a new text file at the path you specify.
- Append to a text fileThis Action will append to a text file as determined by the file name and folder path you specify. Once a file’s size reaches 2MB a new file will be created.
Dropbox and Hacker News resources
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