Difference between revisions of "Dropbox Crawler"
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− | + | author = {Idilio Drago}, | |
− | + | title = {Understanding and Monitoring Cloud Services}, | |
− | + | school = {University of Twente}, | |
− | + | url = {<nowiki>\url{http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/24136/</nowiki>}}, | |
− | + | year = {2013}, | |
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− | @inproceedings{drago_caracterizacao_2013, | + | @inproceedings{drago_caracterizacao_2013, |
− | + | author = {Idilio Drago and Alex Borges Vieira and Ana Paula Couto da Silva}, | |
− | + | title = {Caracteriza{\c c}{\~a}o dos Arquivos Armazenados no Dropbox}, | |
− | + | booktitle = {Anais do Workshop de Redes {P2P}, Din{\^a}micas, Sociais e Orientadas a Conte{\'u}do}, | |
− | + | series = <nowiki>{{WP2P+}}</nowiki>, | |
− | + | pages = {109--114}, | |
− | + | year = {2013}, | |
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Revision as of 09:19, 9 May 2014
Personal cloud storage is becoming more and more popular, with Dropbox certainly being the best known example. It generates a huge amount of Internet traffic, but how does it works? How is it used? What are the possible improvements?
We have been doing research on the usage of Dropbox (see our results here). In this experiment, we collected basic statistics of what files are stored in Dropbox folders.
Contents
Datasets
Download our datasets from here:
How our data collection work?
- It scans Dropbox folders
- Calculates basic statistics
- Shows what has been collected for approval
- Sends the statistics to us
What has been logged?
For each file/folder in a Dropbox, the program collects:
* Size in bytes * Last modification time * Mime type of the file * File extension * MD5 Hash of both initial and final 8 kbytes of the file * MD5 Hash of the file name/path
The program also sends to us:
* MD5 Hash of Dropbox configuration files (or MAC address if we cannot read the former) * MD5 Hash of the path of your Dropbox home folder * Your IP address and operating system version * Error logs, in case something goes wrong during the data collection
Collected information is sent via plain HTTP to a centralized collection server.
What our program DIDN'T do?
- Copy any file or folder out of computers
- Copy any other information than what is listed above
- Install or store anything
We also release the source code of our program. Recompile it on your own -- and improve it :)
Client source code
Download the source code by clicking here for the native versions (you will need Python 2.7 and PyInstaller for building these versions), or here for the Java version.
More information
The datasets in this page are used in the following publications:
@phdthesis{drago_understanding_2013, author = {Idilio Drago}, title = {Understanding and Monitoring Cloud Services}, school = {University of Twente}, url = {\url{http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/24136/}}, year = {2013}, },
@inproceedings{drago_caracterizacao_2013, author = {Idilio Drago and Alex Borges Vieira and Ana Paula Couto da Silva}, title = {Caracteriza{\c c}{\~a}o dos Arquivos Armazenados no Dropbox}, booktitle = {Anais do Workshop de Redes {P2P}, Din{\^a}micas, Sociais e Orientadas a Conte{\'u}do}, series = {{WP2P+}}, pages = {109--114}, year = {2013}, },
More information
- More information about our work is found on this paper:
- This page has more information about the data we used in our research so far.
External Links
These institutes involved in this research:
- DACS - University of Twente - Contact: Idilio Drago - idilio.drago@polito.it
- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Contact: Alex Vieira - alex.borges@ufjf.edu.br
- Telecommunication Networks Group - Politecnico di Torino - Marco Mellia - mellia@tlc.polito.it