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bspindia's avatar
bspindia
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago

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
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  • bspindia's avatar
    bspindia
    3 years ago
    Hurray made it
     
    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token');
    curl_setopt($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);
bspindia's avatar
bspindia
Helpful | Level 7

i compress the input file image to webp using canvas,

and uploaded using token

now due to short live tokens, i am getting unauthorised error while uploading blob

hence to i need unexpired token,

now as dropbox is not giveing legacy tokens,

i have to authorize app-> generate new token with code->upload blob to dropbox with token

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago

bspindia, don't be so lazy! Don't ask question that I just explained in my previous post above. Ok. I'll repeat again: one of the possible usage of mentioned call is access token refresh!!! Do you need such a refresh (i.e. your access token expired as explained here, for instance)?

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