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Allowing Website users to Dynamically create auth tokens and upload/download images
I am searching for a way to implement Dropbox as the data folder for images on my social media site, with api calls made client-side to upload and download images that populate the site. Considering ...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThe OAuth process where the user chooses to authorize the app and the app then receives the resulting access token and optional refresh token does require manual interaction, but this only needs to be done once per Dropbox account.
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.
The Dropbox SDKs can handle this automatically for you. For the official Dropbox Python SDK, you can find examples of this flow at the following links:
- https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/main/example/oauth/commandline-oauth-scopes.py
- https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/main/example/oauth/commandline-oauth-pkce.py
When configuring the client like that, it will perform the refresh process for you automatically.
Maybe old, but you have 2 options. I don't know if in 2022, this endpoints was available.
1 - for small files (up to 150MB) use the endpoint get_temporary_upload_link, so you can make uploads directly from client-side.
2 - upload to your server and then, use save_url endpoint to request DropBbox do download the file from your server to your dropbox account.
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