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George K.23
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10 years ago

API session expiry?

Hi everyone, I'm in the process of creating a Python app which will run on my Raspberry Pi to allow me to control a webcam via Dropbox. I have created an app and generated an access token. In my pr...
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George K.23
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

OK, cool - yeah I guess you can't always guarantee the internet will cooperate! I've added simple exception handling to all my dropbox calls so that at least the program won't terminate. Do you think I have to re-create the dropbox.Dropbox('ACCESS_TOKEN') object in the event of a network exception, or will I be OK to just re-try the search/move functions next time round in the loop?

Thanks!

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