Node.js server-side auth

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koradev_shane wrote:

... From what I understand of the OAuth flow, user interaction is required to authenticate (visit auth URL, tap Agree/Allow, be redirected with the `code` value in query and then use dbx SDK to getAccessTokenWithCode).

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Hi koradev_shane,

Yes, you need to perform OAuth flow least once. It depend is your action is one time action (or multiple times in short period ~4 hours) or need to proceed for longer. If you need one time action - access token generated either from your application page or received with OAuth flow should be enough. If you need access for longer, you need offline access type through refresh token. The OAuth flow itself doesn't need to be performed on your server. You can perform such a flow on the machine you have used to make above post (or any other machine) and use received results on your server without anything like URL, agree etc. there. 😉 Take a look how you can perform simplistic OAuth flow by hand here.

Hope this helps.