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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.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffNo, 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.
Hi ,
Is there any error that will be thrown when long lived access token get deprecated? we are shifting our nodejs application where long lived access token accounts will start giving a deprecation error once announced.
Just wanted to heads up on the error priorly so that we can handle them.
Is there any expiry to refresh token?Please let us know.
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
Thanks! 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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