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Sufiyanashraf
3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Access Token Can't be refreshed without refresh token and app key in Python
I am building an app in python to automatically update a file using dropbox API, but it shows an error after 4 hours however I can't find any mistake can you point out my mistake? My code Link: https://github.com/sufiyanashraf/dropboxhelp/blob/main/cantrefresh
10 Replies
- Greg-DB3 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
I see you are using the official Dropbox Python SDK to do the upload work, but are attempting to perform the refresh process yourself using 'requests' to call the /oauth2/token endpoint directly. The official Dropbox Python SDK can handle the refresh process for you automatically though, and I strongly recommend having it do so instead of attempting to implement the refresh process yourself. You can see an example of supplying the credentials to the Dropbox object here, in which case it will handle the refresh for you automatically.
- Sufiyanashraf3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Yes, but it is just setup nothing related to token refresh. basically, my software stopped after 4 hours first it showed the error of an expired access token. So, I used this method by searching. Can you please point out the corrections in my code?
- Greg-DB3 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
In order to get this working, please set up the client by supplying the refresh token, etc., to it directly, as shown in the example, so that it can perform the refresh process for you. That way, it can continue performing API calls successfully for more than four hours.
- Sufiyanashraf3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
So flow like this? It still shows an error.
import sys import dropbox import time from dropbox import DropboxOAuth2FlowNoRedirect from dropbox.files import WriteMode while True: with dropbox.Dropbox(oauth2_access_token='access token', oauth2_access_token_expiration=expiry, oauth2_refresh_token='refresh token', app_key='app key', app_secret='secret'): try: with open('rtk.txt', 'rb') as f: file_contents = f.read() dbx.files_upload(file_contents, '/rtk.txt', mode=dropbox.files.WriteMode('overwrite')) except Exception as e: print(f"An error occurred: {e}") time.sleep(60)Error: An error occurred: name 'dbx' is not defined
- Greg-DB3 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
That error indicates that you're attempting to use an object that isn't defined. Since you're trying to access a client with the name "dbx", add "as dbx" at the end of the "with" statement (before the ":"), like this:
with dropbox.Dropbox(oauth2_access_token='access token', oauth2_access_token_expiration=expiry, oauth2_refresh_token='refresh token', app_key='app key', app_secret='secret') as dbx:(Or, you can still do it the other way, like "dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(...)" as long as you fill in credentials like above.)
- Sufiyanashraf3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
I corrected but again error
import sys import dropbox from dropbox import DropboxOAuth2FlowNoRedirect from dropbox.files import WriteMode import time while True: with dropbox.Dropbox(oauth2_access_token='sl access token', oauth2_access_token_expiration=14400, oauth2_refresh_token='refresh token', app_key='app key', app_secret='app secret') as dbx: try: with open('rtk.txt', 'rb') as f: file_contents = f.read() dbx.files_upload(file_contents, '/rtk.txt', mode=dropbox.files.WriteMode('overwrite')) except Exception as e: print(f"An error occurred: {e}") time.sleep(60)Showing error: "An error occurred: '>=' not supported between instances of 'datetime.datetime' and 'int'"
- Greg-DB3 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
This error is indicating that oauth2_access_token_expiration requires a datetime, but you're now passing in an int. You should pass in a datetime for that. Or, you can just omit oauth2_access_token_expiration entirely and the SDK will just handle it as needed.
- Sufiyanashraf3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Remove this line?
oauth2_access_token_expiration=14400,
- Greg-DB3 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Yes, either remove it or supply the correct type (datetime).
- Sufiyanashraf3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
For now this code is perfectly working but I still want to open this topic 4 hours more to confirm if program doesn't die after that!
import sys import dropbox from dropbox import DropboxOAuth2FlowNoRedirect from dropbox.files import WriteMode import time while True: with dropbox.Dropbox(oauth2_access_token='<access token>', oauth2_refresh_token='<refresh token>', app_key='<app key>', app_secret='<app secret>') as dbx: try: with open('rtk.txt', 'rb') as f: file_contents = f.read() dbx.files_upload(file_contents, '/rtk.txt', mode=dropbox.files.WriteMode('overwrite')) except Exception as e: print(f"An error occurred: {e}") time.sleep(60)
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