Long-term Access Token for using in Node Red

lsteel11

Hi, 

 

I am trying to sync data from a raspberry pi to a dropbox app, so that I can access the data remotely in real time (e.g. it updates every 10 mins). I created a flow in Node Red to do this, using the dropbox out node - and put in the access token from my dropbox app. This worked well, however, the access token expired after a few hours. From researching, I see that dropbox is now only generating short term access tokens. However, for my data collection I require long term access.

 

1. Would generating a refresh token solve this problem? 

2. If so, how do I generate a refresh token? I have  downloaded python and python SDK, and tried to follow the documentation, but I am confused and cannot get it to work. 

 

I would really appreciate any help on the above, or any other ideas you may have as to how to sync this data! 

 

Many thanks, 

Laura 

Greg-DB

1. Yes, using a refresh token is the right way to maintain long-term access without repeated manual interaction.

 

2. You can find an example of using the Python SDK to process the app authorization flow to get a refresh token here. Once you have the refresh token, you can store and re-use it to make the Dropbox client object whenever you need, without processing the app authorization flow again. The SDK will use the refresh token to perform the refresh process for you automatically.