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Getting started - authorizing

My app id is (for example) xxxxxxxxxxx

Why doesn't this URL, pasted into my browser, take me to the page to let me authorize my app?

https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id = xxxxxxxxxxx

am I missing quotes? I tried this as well:

https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id = "xxxxxxxxxxx"

I know I am missing something, it is just not obvious to me. Thanks.

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You're missing a few parameters that are necessary for the /oauth2/authorize page. (You should be getting a detailed error message at the bottom of that page when you access it like this.)

You can find the full documentation for the required and optional parameters here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-authorize

At a minimum, you also need the "response_type" parameter.

Also, this old blog post was written for the now-retired API v1 (a.k.a. Core API), but the OAuth 2 flow still works the same for API v2:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/07/using-oauth-2-0-with-the-core-api/

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You're missing a few parameters that are necessary for the /oauth2/authorize page. (You should be getting a detailed error message at the bottom of that page when you access it like this.)

You can find the full documentation for the required and optional parameters here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-authorize

At a minimum, you also need the "response_type" parameter.

Also, this old blog post was written for the now-retired API v1 (a.k.a. Core API), but the OAuth 2 flow still works the same for API v2:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/07/using-oauth-2-0-with-the-core-api/

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