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Cycle through images with File Roulette and Dropbox

Learn how to cycle through multiple images within a single image widget.

Updated over a week ago

File Roulette is an app developed by former Geckoboarder Daniel Upton that generates a URL that returns a different file in your Dropbox each time you visit it โ€“ either randomly or in sequence. This tool can be used to create an image widget that displays a new image after every refresh, which occurs automatically every hour.

  1. Add a new Image widget from your dashboard.

  2. Open file-roulette.com in a new browser tab or window.

  3. Click Log in With Dropbox.

  4. Dropbox will ask you to allow File Roulette access to a folder. This will create a File Roulette folder within the existing Apps folder in Dropbox.

  5. Then, you'll be presented with 2 URLs: one for random order and the other for one-after-another (Round Robin) order. Copy one of these to your clipboard.

    Screen showing the two URL options for File Roulette
  6. In Geckoboard, paste the link into the URL field.

  7. Then click Save.

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