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Get Access Token from Chooser API
Hi, In my salesforce project, I need to enable dropbox so that user can select the file from dropbox. Backend logic involves reading the file content and process it further. I am using Dropbo...
- The Dropbox Chooser does not return an access token, nor does it use the OAuth app authorization flow at all.
Instead, it returns to your app information about the selected file(s), including links to the file data. There's more information about this in the documentation here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/chooser
In short, in the `file` result, there is a `link` field, which contains a URL to the file data. Your app should perform a GET request to that URL to get the file data.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThe Dropbox Chooser does not return an access token, nor does it use the OAuth app authorization flow at all.
Instead, it returns to your app information about the selected file(s), including links to the file data. There's more information about this in the documentation here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/chooser
In short, in the `file` result, there is a `link` field, which contains a URL to the file data. Your app should perform a GET request to that URL to get the file data.
Instead, it returns to your app information about the selected file(s), including links to the file data. There's more information about this in the documentation here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/chooser
In short, in the `file` result, there is a `link` field, which contains a URL to the file data. Your app should perform a GET request to that URL to get the file data.
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