Send Youtube videos to your Dropbox folder
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Incredibly simple apps like puu.sh and Skitch have taken off as separate apps and there has been a scattering of Dropbox-integrated third party tools, which I typically have to give away my Dropbox key to use. There's so much data on the web that is difficult to pull out of the cloud, and Dropbox is in the unique position of bridging these two realms.
Dropbox has a lock on the position of market leader in file storage, but they haven't built a platform. There was an article a few days ago which described how Dropbox is a feature, not a product, and the whole company would be put out of business if Apple/Microsoft/Google just rebuilt the functionality (a bit hyperbolic, but worth a thought). But I don't think there have been more than a few features since I started using Dropbox a few years ago, and it's not for a shortage of engineers.
Ripping content out of a youtube might be denied in some EULA so maybe Dropbox just doesn't want to get involved due to legal issues. In any case, Dropbox does one thing and does it well. Anything else is extra and I congratulate them for keeping their game together.
Dropbox really need to allow users to lock down application API access to a specific path.
I fear it's the latter, and that would basically mean you're using your bandwidth twice.
Can DropBox transload files from arbitrary URLs? Because then it should totally be possible.
That can only be true if it's not using your connection (twice!) to do the download.
Wait, after going back and clicking a few more times, it finally queued it.