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nicoslepicos
9 years agoNew member | Level 2
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...
- 9 years agoYes, 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
9 years agoYes, 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
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
nicoslepicos
9 years agoNew member | Level 2
Awesome! 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!
- nicoslepicos9 years agoNew member | Level 2
Out of curiosity, are lots of people using the Webhooks? Is this a common way that people are integrating?
- Greg-DB9 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for the feedback!
I don't believe we've published any numbers on webhooks usage, so I'm afraid I can't offer a good idea of how common Drpobox webhooks integrations are.
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