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Display image roulette on your dashboard using Dropbox
Display image roulette on your dashboard using Dropbox

Learn how the File Roulette app uses Dropbox to display a new image on an image widget after every refresh.

Updated over a month ago

File Roulette is an app developed by ex-Geckoboarder Daniel Upton that generates a URL that returns a different file in your Dropbox each time you visit it – 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 and give it a Title.

  2. Open file-roulette.com in a new browser tab or window. Then, click Log in With Dropbox.

  3. Dropbox will ask you to allow File Roulette access to a folder. This will create a "File Roulette" folder in the "Apps" folder in your Dropbox.

  4. You should be presented with 2 URLs: one for random order, 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
  5. Return to Geckoboard and add a new Image widget.

  6. In the URL field, paste the link you copied, then click Save.

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