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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
- Hurray 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
Super User II
Super 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.
how to generate short live tokens using fetch api
- Greg-DB
Dropbox 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.
- i 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))
Hi bspindia,
The call /oauth2/token doesn't support Bearer authorization. It's used to receive such a token, not to use it. Can be used Basic authorization to pass application key and secret or pass them as parameters. Depending on exact step you are performing other parameters should be passed too, but you are skipping them in your code. Take a look on the documentation.
Hope this sheds some light.
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