Connect “OneDrive for Business” with Rclone on Linux VPS

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from kinds of cloud file storage and synchronization service.

Since 12th September 2017, the Rclone have supported the “OneDrive for Business” and covered the main cloud storages. Thanks to the developers!
I will introduce how to config the “OneDrive for Business”, that need to authorize by browser, on the command line interface.
There are two method to finish the process.

1. Configure on local machine first and copy the config file to vps.
   The path of config file on Windows：C:\Users\***\.config\rclone\rclone.conf
   The path of config file on Linux：~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
2. Use the Ngrok to forward the traffic of local port, that is listened to rclone.
   

   Install Rclone

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   curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip cd rclone-*-linux-amd64

   Set Up Ngrok

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   wget https://bin.equinox.io/c/4VmDzA7iaHb/ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip unzip ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip ./ngrok authtoken 6c4SjM****************7FqEG8Ro screen -S ngrok ./ngrok http 53682

   The Rclone will listen the 53682 port when configuring the “OneDrive for Business”. After run the commands, you can see the ngrok link have forwarded the 53682 port. Record the ngrok link. Press Ctrl+A+D to quit the “screen” or open a new terminal.
   

   Rclone Config

   Follow the steps until “Waiting for code…”.
   

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   $ ./rclone config 2017/11/30 05:19:11 NOTICE: Config file "/home/ubuntu/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults No remotes found - make a new one n) New remote s) Set configuration password q) Quit config n/s/q> n name> onedrive Type of storage to configure. Choose a number from below, or type in your own value 1 / Amazon Drive    \ "amazon cloud drive" 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)    \ "s3" 3 / Backblaze B2    \ "b2" 4 / Box    \ "box" 5 / Dropbox    \ "dropbox" 6 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote    \ "crypt" 7 / FTP Connection    \ "ftp" 8 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)    \ "google cloud storage" 9 / Google Drive    \ "drive" 10 / Hubic    \ "hubic" 11 / Local Disk    \ "local" 12 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage    \ "azureblob" 13 / Microsoft OneDrive    \ "onedrive" 14 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)    \ "swift" 15 / QingClound Object Storage    \ "qingstor" 16 / SSH/SFTP Connection    \ "sftp" 17 / Yandex Disk    \ "yandex" 18 / http Connection    \ "http" Storage> 13 Microsoft App Client Id - leave blank normally. client_id> Microsoft App Client Secret - leave blank normally. client_secret> Remote config Choose OneDrive account type? * Say b for a OneDrive business account * Say p for a personal OneDrive account b) Business p) Personal b/p> b Use auto config? * Say Y if not sure * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine y) Yes n) No y/n> y If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth Log in and authorize rclone for access Waiting for code...

   
   You can get the authorization link “http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth”.
   Change “127.0.0.1:53682” to “b16e00cf.ngrok.io”, that forwards the local port “53682“.
   Visit the “http://b16e00cf.ngrok.io/auth”. Login the office 365 account and authorize. You can get the responce link like this:
   
   1	http://localhost:53682/?code=AQABAAIAA************LV38WMZ3MFwgAA&state=02c7978fa9c1a8262125b50ee8334b6b&session_state=22f15d*****48c1b11

   
   Also, Change “127.0.0.1:53682” to “b16e00cf.ngrok.io”. Visit the changed link on browser to finish authorization.
   
   1	http://b16e00cf.ngrok.io/?code=AQABAAIAA************LV38WMZ3MFwgAA&state=02c7978fa9c1a8262125b50ee8334b6b&session_state=22f15d*****48c1b11

   
   
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   Got code 2017/11/30 05:27:17 NOTICE: Found API v2.0 endpoint https://pyoffice-my.sharepoint.com/_api/v2.0/me -------------------- [onedrive] client_id = client_secret = token = {"access_token":"********.*****xpiry":"2017-11-30T06:27:13.508653552Z"} resource_url = https://pyoffice-my.sharepoint.com/ -------------------- y) Yes this is OK e) Edit this remote d) Delete this remote y/e/d> y Current remotes:   Name                 Type ====                 ==== onedrive             onedrive   e) Edit existing remote n) New remote d) Delete remote r) Rename remote c) Copy remote s) Set configuration password q) Quit config e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q