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bspindia
2 years agoHelpful | Level 7
legacy token
my token is expiring while making api calls and getting unauthorised error due to short live tokens, how to generate unexpired token
please assist
regards,
Sikandar
- 2 years agoHurray made it$ch = curl_init();curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=***refreshtoken******");curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, '**AppKey' . ':' . '***AppSecret*****');$headers = array();$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded';curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);$result = curl_exec($ch);echo $result;if (curl_errno($ch)) {echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);}curl_close($ch);
Rich
2 years agoSuper User II
bspindia wrote:
my token is expiring while making api calls and getting unauthorised error due to short live tokens, how to generate unexpired token
Long-lived (non-expiring) tokens can no longer be generated. They were deprecated and later replaced with short-lived and refresh tokens. A refresh token is used to automatically renew access as needed.
- bspindia2 years agoHelpful | Level 7
how to generate short live tokens using fetch api
- Greg-DB2 years agoDropbox Staff
bspindia Apps can get long-term access by requesting "offline" access, 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. I don't have a sample for this with fetch in particular, but there's a basic outline of processing this flow in this blog post which may serve as a useful example so you can translate it to fetch.
- bspindia2 years agoHelpful | Level 7i am trying to take code in res please correct headers, right now i am having error as invalid_request"Content-Type":"application/json","Authorization":"Bearer "+dropBox.apiKey+":"+dropBox.keySecret,}}).then(req=>req.json()).then(res=>console.log(res)).catch(error=>console.log(error))
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