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Josh-IP
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3 years ago

Correct Auth Method for My App?

I work at a screen printing company, and we are building a design library app to display our designs to users. The images of the designs are stored in our Dropbox account. I have already set up my Dr...
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DB-Des
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3 years ago

Hi there,

 

Apps can get long-term access by requesting "offline" access, in which case the app receives a "refresh token" that can be used to retrieve new short-lived access tokens as needed, without further manual user intervention. Refresh tokens do not expire automatically and can be used repeatedly. You can find more information in the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation. There's a basic outline of processing this flow in this blog post which may serve as a useful example.

 

Hope this helps!

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