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Brendan C.
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11 years ago

Hardcode authentication/api to a single Dropbox account?

Hello - new to the Dropbox API and wondering if it's possible to hardcode the Dropbox account that an app using the API would authenticate/connect to? In other words - when a user takes some actio...
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Brendan C.'s avatar
Brendan C.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

@Jason yep, that makes sense, but doing everything client side for this app since I'm being lazy and trying to build a prototype.

@Greg K - got it yeah, kinda figured that, so would need to get a valid token and then hardcode that into the flow... I understand the risks there of course...

I'm basically trying to use dropbox as a file server that can receive a new file then spit out a dl link that can be shared, kind of a janky use case.

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