You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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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.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffAs Здравко noted, Dropbox is no longer offering the option for creating new long-lived access tokens. Dropbox is switching to only issuing short-lived access tokens (and optional refresh tokens) instead of long-lived access tokens. You can find more information on this migration here.
Apps can still get long-term access by requesting "offline" access though, in which case the app receives a "refresh token" that can be used to retrieve new short-lived access tokens as needed, without further manual user intervention. You can find more information in the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation. There's a basic outline of processing this flow in this blog post which may serve as a useful example. Dropbox doesn't have resources for PowerShell in particular though.
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.
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