Is there a way to get short lived app access token without user interaction on behalf of admin.

[mkirank]

Is there a way to get short lived app access token without user interaction and on behalf of admin and use user impersonation to fetch user data.This is required for us as we are using a background service to pull a specific user data.

[Greg-DB]

If you want the access token to have access only to a specific member's account, then no, the Dropbox API doesn't offer anything quite like this, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

You can get new short-lived access tokens on demand, without further manual user intervention, if you have a "refresh token" though. Note however that the resulting access token will always have the same permissions as the original authorization that resulted in that refresh token. (That would include access to the "member file access" feature, if such access was granted.) Please refer to the OAuth Guide and documentation for information on using refresh tokens.

[mkirank]

Thanks for the information. As you mentioned dropbox does not support access token to have access only to a specific member's account so is there a way to get application level access token and we need this to be acquired by a background process so there will be no user interaction. Let me know if it is possible through dropbox API.

[Greg-DB]

No, Dropbox doesn't offer access tokens for an app itself. Dropbox access tokens are always for a particular app-team pair or app-user pair, both of which require authorization, from a team admin or user respectively.

[mkirank]

Ok.I am admin of a business account and let me know if there is some way for me to get team token onbhalf of my admin user account without manual user intervention.

[Greg-DB]

The authorization for any team or user account always requires some sort of manual interaction, but note that the app can store and re-use the access token/refresh token after that.