Need to see if your shared folder is taking up space on your dropbox 👨💻? Find out how to check here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
Getting started - authorizing
My app id is (for example) xxxxxxxxxxx
Why doesn't this URL, pasted into my browser, take me to the page to let me authorize my app?
https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id = xxxxxxxxxxx
am I missing quotes? I tried this as well:
https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id = "xxxxxxxxxxx"
I know I am missing something, it is just not obvious to me. Thanks.
- You're missing a few parameters that are necessary for the /oauth2/authorize page. (You should be getting a detailed error message at the bottom of that page when you access it like this.)
You can find the full documentation for the required and optional parameters here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-authorize
At a minimum, you also need the "response_type" parameter.
Also, this old blog post was written for the now-retired API v1 (a.k.a. Core API), but the OAuth 2 flow still works the same for API v2:
https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/07/using-oauth-2-0-with-the-core-api/
1 Reply
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
You're missing a few parameters that are necessary for the /oauth2/authorize page. (You should be getting a detailed error message at the bottom of that page when you access it like this.)
You can find the full documentation for the required and optional parameters here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-authorize
At a minimum, you also need the "response_type" parameter.
Also, this old blog post was written for the now-retired API v1 (a.k.a. Core API), but the OAuth 2 flow still works the same for API v2:
https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2013/07/using-oauth-2-0-with-the-core-api/
About Dropbox API Support & Feedback
Find help with the Dropbox API from other developers.
