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Chameleon

Note: Since heroku is no longer free, you can use the Cloudflare Workers version! See https://gist.github.com/owyongsk/5078d63a6a5439d428dd44a6cc289983

A quick and simple roll your own Dropbox public folder (on your Dropbox).

Usage on free heroku dyno

1. Create an app on your https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create, choose "Dropbox API", set permissions to "Apps folder", generate a token
2. Deploy this app to heroku.
3. Set your token as env variable DROPBOX_TOKEN
4. Move all your files to your ~/Dropbox/Apps/'dropbox-app-name-earlier' folder
5. Look at your file at https://example.herokuapp.com/path/to/file.html if you have a file ~/Dropbox/Apps/'dropbox-app-name-earlier'/path/to/file.html

Installation on your own server

1. Install Erlang, Elixir, with instructions from here. Make sure it is Elixir v1.0.5, Erlang v18.1
2. Clone this repo
3. Run mix deps.get in the app folder
4. Run mix run --no-halt

Caution!

• Might get rate limited by Dropbox at some point, each browser GET request is an API call to Dropbox.
• Heroku's free tier might put your app to sleep, use uptimerobot to ping your site if you want it up all the time

TODO

• Caching?
• Tests?
• Error pages?
• Dev environment

Pull requests or feedback welcomed!