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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...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorIn 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.
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-DB
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.)
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-DB
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.
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