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Nicholas H.2's avatar
Nicholas H.2
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10 years ago

Generated Access Token not working for authentication (Python)

Hello, I generated an access token on my app page, but it does not seem to be working. I am using it in place of the token that is normally generated when give it access from the webpage. Here is ...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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10 years ago

Try just this instead:

from dropbox.client import DropboxClient
access_token = 'xxxxxxx' # <-- your generated access token
client = DropboxClient(access_token)

It looks like what you're trying to do is use your access token as the "authorization code" for the OAuth flow, but that's not right. The result of the OAuth flow is an access token, and you already have one of those, so you're done!

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