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dpellic996
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2 years ago

help: long-live tokens for dropbox app

Hello everyone, I know that there are other issues related to this but I did not find anything that really helped me. I'm trying to upload images (.png) from my PC to dropbox via an application t...
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dpellic996
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

So, if I got it right, using a redirect URI is the only way for generating a refresh token automatically (i.e. not manually by authorizing by myself)?

sorry for the confusion, i'm not very into these things and I find this very complicated!

D.

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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

No, a redirect URI is not required to get a refresh token. Whether or not a redirect URI is used though, the manual authorization step does need to be handled by the user manually in order to authorize the app to access their account and receive a refresh token. This only needs to be done once per account though; the refresh token can then be stored and re-used programmatically without the user present.

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