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Using Powershell to get a token
I'm trying to make a simple powershell script to upload a file to a shared folder, then automatically generate a view only sharing link with a specified expiration time and a password. I made a d...
Greg,
Thanks for the response. I spent a couple of hours trying to get the refresh token thing to work and I never really understood it. So I'm putting a halt to my project because the effort to complete it using the new auth method is going to be more effort than this whole project going to save me. It's really unfortunate that this project would have worked flawlessly before the API key expiration change, but that's life.
Hi Zohanlon,
In spite some time ago was possible to receive long lived access token, it's not possible anymore. You can still use available long lived access token if you have one (in the way you are trying to), but new one cannot be issued; all new tokens are short lived with validity period 4 hours, at most. For long term access you need refresh token and "refreshing" the access token every time it expires you have long term access access 😉. You can take a look here how you may organize your applications work. Refresh token doesn't expire automatically and alive until explicit revoke from either the application itself or user using your application.
Hope this helps.
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