Content & Documents · Integration
Dropbox
Add Dropbox to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Embed a Dropbox integration so your customers can work their own files and folders from inside your product, with governed agent access to the same content. Access runs through each customer's own Dropbox grant, so their existing permissions apply and your product cannot read a file the connected account could not read itself. fastn handles per-customer OAuth, pagination, and API upkeep, so onboarding a new Dropbox account is configuration rather than a release.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let customers browse and pick files from their own Dropbox without leaving your product.
Write generated documents and exports straight into a customer's own folder structure.
Read file metadata and revisions so your product shows the current version rather than a stale copy.
Trigger your product when a file is added, moved, or updated in a watched folder.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent reads a document to answer a question grounded in the customer's own files.
An agent writes or files a generated document within governed permissions, with the action audited.
An agent reacts to a new upload and starts the next processing step.
Example prompt
Find files added to the contracts folder this month that have not been renamed to the standard format.
Set up Dropbox in 4 steps
- 01Open the Dropbox connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authenticate their Dropbox account with OAuth.
- 03Map the folders and permissions your product may access, then enable actions and triggers.
- 04Call them from your product, or expose them to an agent through the MCP server.
Why teams use the Dropbox integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a Dropbox integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Dropbox account inside your product and work their files, documents and versions there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: permissions and versioning are easy to get subtly wrong, and mistakes expose content. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a Dropbox update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Dropbox connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you let your product work with your customers' documents in place without wiring it twice.
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How do I add a Dropbox integration to my product?
Enable the Dropbox connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Dropbox account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Dropbox client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Dropbox account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Dropbox account and only ever sees their own files, documents and versions. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this Dropbox integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent reads a document to answer a question grounded in the customer's own files.
Who maintains the Dropbox integration?
fastn does. When Dropbox changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Whose permissions does the Dropbox integration run under?
Each customer's own Dropbox grant. Where Dropbox holds a library, their existing folder and item permissions apply and your product cannot reach content the connected account could not reach itself. Where it processes content you supply rather than storing it, the call runs under that customer's own credentials and is logged per tenant.
Can my product create or update content in Dropbox automatically?
Where Dropbox supports writes, documents, entries and assets can be created, updated and filed from your product or by an agent within scoped permissions, with each action logged. Where it is a read surface, the same connection serves reads only.
What can I build with the Dropbox integration?
A common starting point: browse and pick files from their own Dropbox without leaving your product. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the Dropbox integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Dropbox does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Dropbox to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.