TiddlyWiki5/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/howtos/Sharing a TiddlyWiki on Dropbox.tid

created: 20140122085818089
modified: 20150608032039504
tags: Learning
title: Sharing a TiddlyWiki on Dropbox
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki

You can work on a TiddlyWiki file in Dropbox and publish a URL that anyone can use to see a read-only view of the file.

# Save your TiddlyWiki file within your Dropbox folder
# Select Dropbox's "Share Link" option to obtain a public URL for the file
#* In the Dropbox web interface, this is done by clicking the link icon that appears when you hover over a file. Dropbox also adds a "Share Link" item to the file context menu in Finder on OS X and Explorer on Windows
# The URL generated by Dropbox will have this form:
#> `https://www.dropbox.com/s/<gobbledegook>/mywiki.html`
# Modify the URL like this, carefully preserving the gobbledegook:
#> `https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/<gobbledegook>/mywiki.html`

The result is a "secret" URL that you can send to other people to enable them to see the wiki.

----

Enter a generated URL here and you can copy and paste the secret URL:

<$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/dropboxurl" default="https://www.dropbox.com/s/<gobbledegook>/mywiki.html" tag="input" type="text" size="60"/>

<$macrocall $name="dropbox-url" url={{$:/temp/dropboxurl}}/>
Add documentation on sharing via Dropbox 2014-01-22 09:06:07 +00:00			`created: 20140122085818089`
Add ability to auto generate Dropbox URL I felt the conversion from the Dropbox share URL to the "secret" URL was complicated enough to have the tiddler do it for the user. And so I wrote a widget to do that. The user enters in the shared URL given by Dropbox and the widget outputs the secret URL that they can copy / paste with. See if it is worth having on the TW5.com site. 2015-06-08 03:32:29 +00:00			`modified: 20150608032039504`
Lots of documentation cleanup 2014-09-19 16:18:25 +00:00			`tags: Learning`
Add documentation on sharing via Dropbox 2014-01-22 09:06:07 +00:00			`title: Sharing a TiddlyWiki on Dropbox`
			`type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki`

			`You can work on a TiddlyWiki file in Dropbox and publish a URL that anyone can use to see a read-only view of the file.`

			`# Save your TiddlyWiki file within your Dropbox folder`
			`# Select Dropbox's "Share Link" option to obtain a public URL for the file`
			`#* In the Dropbox web interface, this is done by clicking the link icon that appears when you hover over a file. Dropbox also adds a "Share Link" item to the file context menu in Finder on OS X and Explorer on Windows`
			`# The URL generated by Dropbox will have this form:`
Docs update 2014-01-29 09:05:33 +00:00			#> `https://www.dropbox.com/s/<gobbledegook>/mywiki.html`
Add documentation on sharing via Dropbox 2014-01-22 09:06:07 +00:00			`# Modify the URL like this, carefully preserving the gobbledegook:`
Docs update 2014-01-29 09:05:33 +00:00			#> `https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/<gobbledegook>/mywiki.html`
Add documentation on sharing via Dropbox 2014-01-22 09:06:07 +00:00
			`The result is a "secret" URL that you can send to other people to enable them to see the wiki.`
Add ability to auto generate Dropbox URL I felt the conversion from the Dropbox share URL to the "secret" URL was complicated enough to have the tiddler do it for the user. And so I wrote a widget to do that. The user enters in the shared URL given by Dropbox and the widget outputs the secret URL that they can copy / paste with. See if it is worth having on the TW5.com site. 2015-06-08 03:32:29 +00:00
			`----`

			`Enter a generated URL here and you can copy and paste the secret URL:`

			`<$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/dropboxurl" default="https://www.dropbox.com/s/<gobbledegook>/mywiki.html" tag="input" type="text" size="60"/>`

			`<$macrocall $name="dropbox-url" url={{$:/temp/dropboxurl}}/>`