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GreenbackBoogie
7 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Dynamically create apps
Hi!
I'm designing an app, where users would potentially make a lot of queries to the Dropbox API (it will make use of very active file-sharing). And this amount of requests by all the users wil...
- 7 years agoI see, thanks for clarifying. The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. However, it is technically possible to connect to just one account. The SDKs don't offer explicit support for it and we don't recommend doing so, for various technical and security reasons.
However if you did want to go this route, instead of kicking off the authorization flow, you would manually use an existing access token for your account and app. (Just be careful not to revoke it, e.g. via https://www.dropbox.com/account/connected_apps .)
Of course, you would be more likely to hit the rate limits. I'll send this along as a feature request for a better way to handle this, or a way to programmatically register API apps, but I'm not aware of any plans to add those right now.
Greg-DB
7 years agoDropbox Staff
Dropbox doesn't offer a way to automatically create API apps.
The Dropbox API rate limiting system does work per-app-user though, so using a single app should be fine anyway.
The Dropbox API rate limiting system does work per-app-user though, so using a single app should be fine anyway.
- GreenbackBoogie7 years agoExplorer | Level 4Hi, Greg. Yes, it works per-app-user - if a user is authorizing the app. But if the only authorized user is me and I use my own user-token on the back-end (so my app is kind of a "proxy" or "gateway" between end-users and Dropbox), then all the requests will be performed against a single token (mine).
- Greg-DB7 years agoDropbox StaffI see, thanks for clarifying. The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. However, it is technically possible to connect to just one account. The SDKs don't offer explicit support for it and we don't recommend doing so, for various technical and security reasons.
However if you did want to go this route, instead of kicking off the authorization flow, you would manually use an existing access token for your account and app. (Just be careful not to revoke it, e.g. via https://www.dropbox.com/account/connected_apps .)
Of course, you would be more likely to hit the rate limits. I'll send this along as a feature request for a better way to handle this, or a way to programmatically register API apps, but I'm not aware of any plans to add those right now.- GreenbackBoogie7 years agoExplorer | Level 4Thank's a lot! I hope this feature will arrive some day :)
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