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Are Webhooks Not Functional? We verified, but not receiving notification on changes.
We've created an endpoint that has code in place to verify the webhook. That part seems to work well as we received the challenge and echoed it back. The app shows as Enabled and verification was suc...
- Yes, using the "Generate" button to get an access token for your app-user pair would automatically link your account to your app, if it wasn't already.
For end-users, your app should send them through the OAuth app authorization flow to link the app:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauth-guide
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-authorize
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi Nicolae, I just checked and webhooks are working properly for me.
There are a few things to note though:
- Webhooks will only be sent for users that are linked to your app. Make sure you connect your account to your app before testing webhooks.
- Webhooks will only be sent for file/folder changes in linked accounts. I.e., just opening the Dropbox site or folder won't trigger a webhook notification. You'd need to add, edit, move, or delete a file or folder, etc.
Hey, yah it seems the app was not previously connected to my account, but I'm not sure what exactly it was that I did to get it connected.
I did press the generate Access token button. Also, the changes I was making were adding / editing files, so those should have come in, but like you said it seems the app was not linked before :)
Just for the future, what's the exact process for linking the app to the account?
- Greg-DBYes, using the "Generate" button to get an access token for your app-user pair would automatically link your account to your app, if it wasn't already.
For end-users, your app should send them through the OAuth app authorization flow to link the app:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauth-guide
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-authorizeAwesome! I think it might be good to add a mention of that to the Webhook docs: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/webhooks#documentation I read through it but didn't catch that. Would be a helpful tip, I just assumed it was on prior to hitting the Generate button so was trying to set up the intial flow :)
Thanks for the help Greg!
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