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Migrating to short-lived access tokens
Hi there, I want to switch from the depricated long-lived tokens to short-lived access tokens for an application that uses offline access. The old token flow didn't have a refresh token generated...
No, we don't have a way to get refresh tokens for existing long-lived access tokens. However, while long-lived access tokens are now considered deprecated, but we don't currently have a plan to disable existing long-lived access tokens. (If that changes, we will of course announce that ahead of time.) That being the case, your existing users can continue using their existing long-lived access token(s) and you don't have to force them to re-authorize the app if you don't want to.
OAuth 2 refresh tokens will not expire by themselves. See Greg-DB answer in this topic.
Perhaps a good idea to mention this clearly in the documentation.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox StaffThanks! That's correct, refresh tokens don't expire by themselves (though the user or app can revoke them on demand of course). I'll ask the team to more clearly document this.
Anyway, long-lived access tokens are now considered "deprecated", but they will continue operating as they do currently. We'll make an announcement with details if/when that will change.
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