dbx.sharing_list_shared_links only returns empty set

Hi, I'm unable to use the dropbox api to find shared links. The sharing_list_shared_links method only returns an empty set despite having documents I share within the scope I've specified. When I paste a sharing link into the browser it works, but not using the python sdk.

I've also tried using the following methods to download the file given the shared url (which does work in browser) but these throw an ApiError(GetSharedLinkFileError('shared_link_access_denied', None)) even though I've added permissions for shared link access and generated a new token after making that change. The methods that throw this error are:

dbx.sharing_get_shared_link_file_to_file

AND

dbx.sharing_get_shared_link_file

Would really appreciate some help, have been stuck on this for a while. Ultimately the goal is to download a file (40 page pdf) from python given the sharing url for it.