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About DropBox Developer API Access Token

Hello Developers! I am new to Dropbox API and I am facing issues with Access Tokens. I am building a MERN application where I have to store the access token in environmental variables. Here as Access Token is short-lived, I must refresh it each time I work with it. Is there any other way that those Access Tokens can be accessible for much longer?

Thanks for helping in advance!

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@pritesh12 wrote:
... I have to do it by hand each time🥲

"Have to"??? Why? 🤔 Is there something that prevent using refresh token in your scenario? If you use official SDK refreshing is done automatically, so you don't need to change much in your code. 😉 If you use your own implementation, depending of your design skills (if you have organized you credentials dynamically), may be easy to add automatic refresh too (similar as done in Dropbox SDKs).

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@pritesh12 wrote:
... Here as Access Token is short-lived, I must refresh it each time I work with it. ...

Hi @pritesh12,

You must refresh it each time and there is no other way. Do you use refresh token for this purpose or do it by hand?

pritesh12

Hi @Здравко, I have to do it by hand each time🥲

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@pritesh12 wrote:
... I have to do it by hand each time🥲

DB-Des

Hi,

Dropbox is no longer offering the option for creating new long-lived access tokens. Dropbox is now issuing short-lived access tokens (and optional refresh tokens) instead of long-lived access tokens. You can find more information on this migration here.

Apps can still get long-term access by requesting "offline" access though, in which case the app receives a "refresh token" that can be used to retrieve new short-lived access tokens as needed, without further manual user intervention. You can find more information in the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation. There's a basic outline of processing this flow in this blog post which may serve as a useful example.

Adawntoremember

I'm new also.

Adawntoremember

Any information would be awesome

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@Adawntoremember wrote:
Any information would be awesome

@Adawntoremember, Yes, fully agree. 😉 Some information about what exactly you're doing and what confuses you would be nice. Where you're struggling and some code snippet together with unexpected output representing eventual issue you met with would be useful too. Mask any private information like tokens, for instance.