Programmatically sync dropbox without daemon running

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Published on 2013-09-25T10:49:19Z Indexed on 2013/11/12 22:04 UTC
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I would like to 'manually' force dropbox to sync at certain times (eg at regular, daily intervals using cron, as part of a larger backup script). My goal is to substitute the dropbox daemon with single "sync" command invocations at only the times that I control.

Looking at the documentation for the dropbox command on Ubuntu, I only see a way to start/stop the daemon, but not to force it to sync.

Is there a lower level api available that can accomplish this?

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