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Dropbox Access Token Auto Generation

I was trying to upload my files to dropbox using api, but the thing is my token expires after few minutes.

Is there any way that while uploading, it checks whether the token is expired or not, and them automatically generates fresh token, because updating the token manually is a mess if you know, as my product is going to be a public product so this might be an issue.

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Здравко

Yes, that's what the refresh token purpose.

Greg-DB

@priyalcoc1 Здравко is correct; you would request "offline" access to get and use a refresh token for this. Please refer to the following resources for more information:

priyalcoc1

Tried this, but the thing is when I try to generate new token, it takes me to a website, and I can't access that website without email and password, so I can't share my id and pass to public na.

Greg-DB

If your app needs to maintain long-term access without the user manually re-authorizing it repeatedly, the app should request "offline" access so that it gets a refresh token. The refresh token doesn't expire and can be stored and used repeatedly to get new short-lived access tokens whenever needed, without the user manually reauthorizing the app. Once the app has a refresh token, it can use it to perform the refresh process entirely automatically, without the user present and without their username and password, to get a new short-lived access token whenever needed.

Please refer to the resources in my previous message for information on how to use this functionality.