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musidelics_0
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

How to automatically generate an access code using the Dropbox API (Python)

I am currently working on a Python program where I automatically upload generated videos to Dropbox using the API and run the program on the cloud (so it's 100% required that it's 100% automated), bu...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago
musidelics_0 wrote:

..., but I can't seem to find a way to automatically generate new access tokens when the old one expires. ...

You don't need to explicitly 'generate new access tokens'. The only thing you need is using refresh token on client object building and... that's it. 😉 You can continue use it as you are doing now (the object itself will take care for the 'generation').

Hope this helps.

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