Durable or Offline OAth Token for RPA Use? (accessing own account only)

RileyL

I am building a robotic process automation (RPA) using ZeroWork and JavaScript.  I successfully programmed the RPA to upload a file to Dropbox via the API, but I cannot find a way to get a durable OAuth token.  I can test it with sl. tokens, but they expire quickly, and since this is fully run on the RPA, there is no app or user interaction -- just the RPA communicating with the API.

I get the reason for the short expirations and I am fine with coding in token refreshes, if I could just get the offline token I need to do it.  We are only accessing our own Dropbox account and files, so we don't need other users to do any authorization of their accounts.

Is there a solution for this?  All of the Dropbox OAuth documentation I can find appears to assume that we're building apps for other users to interact with and are blind to things like RPA file handling.  We just want to be able to access our own files with the RPA.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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@RileyL wrote:

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I get the reason for the short expirations and I am fine with coding in token refreshes, if I could just get the offline token I need to do it.  We are only accessing our own Dropbox account and files, so we don't need other users to do any authorization of their accounts.
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Hi @RileyL,

Whenever you need long term to access an account (doesn't matter only your own or for multiple user accounts), you need to perform offline OAuth flow. By now, Dropbox provide only access token (that's short lived) on the applications panel, but no way you get refresh token (the long lived one) in the same way. There are different ways to do so. One possible way to get by hand a refresh token and how you could automatic refresh your access token could be seen here. Only the last step there need to be coded and used repeatably, all other steps are one time only.

Hope this helps.