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Alex_Ch
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

How can i get an acces token without a login?

why am I using Dropbox? I´m developing a project with react. It's pretty simple, just a form where ussers send a pdf file. The thing I want to do is just that the ussers send their file and its up...
  • Здравко's avatar
    2 years ago

    Hi Alex_Ch,

    Since you want to access your own account (not user's accounts), the best way would be to implement the entire communication to your Dropbox account (or the communication management, at least) on your server side. In such a way you can use pre-generated refresh token usable to refresh your access token (generation whenever needed - something performed automatically when official SDK is in use). There is no way access token to be generated completely without user confirmation (the your confirmation in particular case - your account is the target), but once refresh token is generated you can use it without further interaction from your side or your site's users.

    One scenario is on post the pdf, it flows to your site and next from your site to Dropbox (i.e. your site behave like a proxy). Other scenario is on user intent to post, on your site a temporary upload link to be generated and the pdf to be uploaded directly to Dropbox (without passing through your site) using this link. In the both cases you don't expose any credentials to the user's browser, something that should be followed (or is advisable, at least).

    Hope this gives direction.

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