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Migrating access token from API v1 to v2

Hello,

I am trying to migrate our API to version 2 and followed the migration guide with no success(https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/migration-guide ).

Just one example is that I am using the link below in order to connect my excel spreadsheet with our BI tool using the api v.1 and access token.

https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/auto/bbbb/aaa.xlsx?access_token=FJCKHGCGFCsWSwSsSAwSsSGssSSg...

Can you please help me to migrate this example to api version2 and use this example to migrate the rest of the links?

Many thanks and I am looking forward for your response.

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Greg-DB

In that example, you're using /1/files to access file data. In API v2, the replacement is /2/files/download:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-download

That's a "content-download endpoint", so the standard way of using that is via a POST with 'Authorization' and 'Dropbox-API-Arg' headers. To just use a GET with it instead though, i.e., so you can just use a URL by itself, you can use the URL parameters documented here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#formats

So, to access a file at "/bbbb/aaa.xlsx" the API call parameters for /2/files/download would be:

{"path": "/bbbb/aaa.xlsx"}

URL encoding those for use with the `arg` URL parameter, along with the 'authorization' URL parameter, the result would be:

https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download?authorization=Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN&amp;arg={"path": "/bbbb/aaa.xlsx"}

Be sure to replace ACCESS_TOKEN with the actual access token.