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ralph86
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

API v2 access token validity

Hi,   We're upgrading from v1 to v2 and the new oauth2 is still not clear to me. On the API documentation pages it says that the code authorization flow gives you the access token (after you used ...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    8 years ago
    The Dropbox API OAuth 2 implementation does not use refresh tokens. (Can you link to the part of the documentation that was confusing? We can look into clarifying it.)

    Dropbox API OAuth 2 access tokens don't expire, but can be revoked at any time by the user or app.

    Note that "authorization codes" are different, and do expire after a few minutes. They should only be used immediately once to get an access token.

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