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bspindia
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

legacy token

my token is expiring while making api calls and getting unauthorised error due to short live tokens, how to generate unexpired token  please assist regards, Sikandar
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  • bspindia's avatar
    bspindia
    2 years ago
    Hurray made it
     
    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=***refreshtoken******");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, '**AppKey' . ':' . '***AppSecret*****');

    $headers = array();
    $headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    echo $result;
     
    if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
    }
    curl_close($ch);
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Rich
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2 years ago
bspindia wrote:

my token is expiring while making api calls and getting unauthorised error due to short live tokens, how to generate unexpired token 

Long-lived (non-expiring) tokens can no longer be generated. They were deprecated and later replaced with short-lived and refresh tokens. A refresh token is used to automatically renew access as needed.

 

  • bspindia's avatar
    bspindia
    Helpful | Level 7
    2 years ago

    how to generate short live tokens using fetch api

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
      2 years ago

      bspindia Apps can get long-term access by requesting "offline" access, in which case the app receives a "refresh token" that can be used to retrieve new short-lived access tokens as needed, without further manual user intervention. You can find more information in the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation. I don't have a sample for this with fetch in particular, but there's a basic outline of processing this flow in this blog post which may serve as a useful example so you can translate it to fetch.

      • bspindia's avatar
        bspindia
        Helpful | Level 7
        2 years ago
        i am trying to take code in res please correct headers, right now i am having error as invalid_request
         
        fetch('https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token',{method:'post',headers:{
        "Content-Type":"application/json",
        "Authorization":"Bearer "+dropBox.apiKey+":"+dropBox.keySecret,
        }}).then(req=>req.json()).then(res=>console.log(res)).catch(error=>console.log(error))

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