How to Use APIs to Transfer All Files From Dropbox to OneDrive?

Using APIs is the way to go when it comes to securely transferring all files and folders from Dropbox to OneDrive, or between other cloud storages. Not only does leveraging APIs help transfer TBs and PBs of data in a smooth way, but it also makes the entire migration secure, even when using third-party migration tools, including ours (CloudFuze X-Change).

In this short guide, we will briefly walk you through the high-level process of how our migration tool utilizes Dropbox and OneDrive APIs to transfer data, such as files and folders.

APIs That Out Migration Tool Uses

Our migration tool uses the following APIs to transfer all files and folders and user accounts from Dropbox to OneDrive:

• Dropbox API
• Microsoft Graph API for OneDrive

Cloud Authorization

All migration tools in the industry, including ours, need some level of access to the Dropbox and OneDrive cloud to read and write data. We use the secure OAuth 2.0 protocol for the cloud authentication process.

With OAuth 2.0, our migration tool gets secure access to Dropbox’s data without having access to the login credentials. This way, we ensure the login details are not stored.

Access Tokens For Reading Dropbox Data

Our tool uses the access tokens that OAuth generates to read data at Dropbox via the Dropbox API. Apart from reading the data, our migration tool also collects metadata of the files and folders to replicate them in OneDrive.

Mapping User Accounts

Mapping Dropbox user accounts to OneDrive is mostly a manual process as it involves creating mapping paths that point to OneDrive’s directory structure using the CSV method. It is important to use correct syntaxes when creating the mapping paths in a CSV file. Upon uploading the CSV file to our tool, the mapping data gets populated for the migration.

Migrating the Files and Folders via API Calls

Our migration tool X-Change uses API calls to transfer all files and folders from Dropbox to OneDrive securely and seamlessly. Apart from the servers we dedicate for the migration, the API calls you have in your company’s Dropbox license also determines the overall throughput during the data transfer.

We adhere to the rate limits set by cloud providers, in this case, Dropbox and OneDrive, to avoid the issue of API throttling.

Transfer Your Company’s Entire Files/Folders from Dropbox to OneDrive

Streamline the process of migrating TBs and PBs of files and folders from Dropbox to OneDrive while preserving metadata with our enterprise-grade migration tool. Connect with our migration team to learn more.

You can also request a price quote tailored to your company’s specific migration needs.