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Cycle through images with File Roulette and Dropbox

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

April 16, 2025

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 – 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.

  6. In Geckoboard, paste the link into the URL field.

  7. Then click Save.