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Regarding the automatic refreshing of the access token
def initialize_dropbox_client():
access_token = "my access token"
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(access_token)
dbx._oauth2_access_token_expiration = time.time() + 14400 # Assume token expires in 1 hour for initial setup
return dbx
# Refresh access token if it's expired
def refresh_access_token():
global dbx # Ensure dbx is accessed as a global variable
client_id = "app id"
client_secret = "app secret"
refresh_token = "resfresh token"
while True:
try:
current_time = time.time()
expiration_time = dbx._oauth2_access_token_expiration
if expiration_time is not None and expiration_time - current_time < 60: # If token expires in less than a minute
data = {
"refresh_token": refresh_token,
"grant_type": "refresh_token",
"client_id": client_id,
"client_secret": client_secret,
}
response = requests.post(token_url, data=data)
new_tokens = response.json()
new_access_token = new_tokens["access_token"]
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(new_access_token)
dbx._oauth2_access_token_expiration = current_time + new_tokens["expires_in"]
else:
time.sleep(60) # Check again after 1 minute
except dropbox.exceptions.AuthError:
st.error("Authentication error. Please check your access token.")
break
i buid auto refreshing of the access token. but it is not automatically refreshing to the new access token and instead of that it is showing an auth error
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
I see you're using the Dropbox Python SDK and are trying to implement the refresh process yourself. Please note that the SDK can handle the refresh functionality for you automatically, so you don't need to implement that yourself.
As long as you provide all of the relevant credentials to the 'Dropbox' object like in the example here, it will automatically handle the refresh process for you whenever needed.
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