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Riccardo Chojwa's avatar
Riccardo Chojwa
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

getting Token with VBA

Hi is there a way to get the DropBox token programmatically through VBA (or a different language, I'll try and translate it into VBA)? this to have my VBA macro go on after that and download a ...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    4 years ago

    I'm not sure exactly what you were trying to build with that code, but no, you should not be attempting to programmatically access the Dropbox web site like that.

Riccardo Chojwa's avatar
Riccardo Chojwa
Explorer | Level 4

Hi Greg

thank you again for your prompt and hi-tech support

for the Token issue, I'll look into the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation. and see what I can dig out of it

for the Dropbox web site programatic access issue, is it incorrect/not meant for and yet feasable in some way?

Thanks
Riccardo

Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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4 years ago

I'm not sure exactly what you were trying to build with that code, but no, you should not be attempting to programmatically access the Dropbox web site like that.

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