How to Upload DropBox files with Shop Uploader

Uploading your digital files and images to Etsy is vital to running your shop. Without product images, your customers won’t know what they are buying. Without digital files, your customers will complain they did not get what they purchased. This article covers how to upload digital files and images from DropBox to Etsy using Shop Uploader.

This article covers how to:

• How to upload a file to DropBox
• How to get a sharable url from DropBox
• How to edit your url to make it a download
• How to enter the information into Shop Uploader

How to upload DropBox files and images to Etsy using Shop Uploader?

To upload your DropBox documents to Etsy, you need to obtain shareable urls. Once obtained, you need to edit them by replacing www. with dl. and removing ?dl=0 from the url. Once edited, you can enter the url into the correct locations on your upload template. Finally, you must add the file's name to the corresponding column when uploading digital files.

How to upload a file to DropBox

To upload your files and images to DropBox, you must first log in to your DropBox account. Once logged in, you can upload by clicking the Upload button or dragging and dropping your files from file explorer.

File Explorer

If you choose file explorer, navigate to your file’s location. Then select your files and drag and drop them onto the webpage. Doing this starts uploading your files.

Upload Button

Clicking the Upload button opens a drop-down. While in this menu, select file or folder upload. Once clicked, a new file explorer window will open. In this file explorer, navigate to your files. Once found, select all files you want to upload, then click open. Clicking the open button starts the upload process.

How to get a sharable url from DropBox

Once you have files uploaded to your DropBox, you can begin sharing them. First, right-click the file you want to share, click Share >, and then Share with DropBox.

Clicking Share with DropBox opens a new pop-up box. In this pop-up, set the setting to “Anyone with this link can view” if it is not already. Once changed, click “Create and copy link”.

How to edit your url to make it a download

Now that you’ve created a shareable url, let’s convert it into a direct download url.

New method

NOTE: A recent change (June 2023) has impacted some Dropbox users.

If your URL is www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/...

• Just change dl=0 to dl=1

Standard method

Pasting the url you copied above will give you a url similar to this

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uxd2yv0oaqm48m9/bouncy-ball-yellow.png?dl=0

To make this a direct download url, you must do the following.

1. Replace www. with dl.
2. Remove ?dl=0 from the end

The above url will become the following

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/uxd2yv0oaqm48m9/bouncy-ball-yellow.png

Note: Clicking on the second url will start downloading the file.

How to enter the information into Shop Uploader

These edited urls are needed to upload images and digital files from DropBox using Shop Uploader.

Images

For images, you enter the edited url into one of the following columns

1. image_url
2. image_#

Your entry should be similar to the following image.

Digital Files

For digital files, you have to do a bit more work.

You need to enter information into the following columns

1. Type
2. digital_file_#
3. digital_file_name_#

First, the type column must be set to digital if you want to upload digital files.

Next, paste the edited url into the digital_file_# column.

The last step is to enter your digital file’s name into the digital_file_name_# column.

If you do not provide this information, your customers won’t get proper file downloads. They will get the files, but they won’t contain a file extension.