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Samantha W.4
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10 years ago

Dropbox for Business API Invalid Access Token

I'm writing an .Net app but I'm not able to authenticate with a Dropbox for Business app. I have created an app in the App Console. App type: Dropbox for Business Permissions: Team member f...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Thanks for the details Samantha! The Dropbox API Explorer is built for Dropbox API apps, not Dropbox Business API apps, and there is one additional thing that is required for Business apps like yours that the Explorer doesn't do. Specifically, when calling non-team endpoints, such as /users/get_current_account, you need to specify an additional header to indicate which team member to act on. You can find the information on this here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#teams-member-file-access

You can use the Explorer to build some sample code, but then you'll need to modify it to add the extra header and run it outside the Explorer.

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