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M-ike's avatar
M-ike
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5 years ago

How to generate a short lived/refresh token from a long live token with the python SDK

From september long live tokens are being retired, so how can I take my existing long lived token and generate a refresh token that I'll be able to use via the api going forward alongside any new sho...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

The API doesn't offer a way to convert long-lived access tokens to refresh tokens. Creating new long-lived access tokens is now considered deprecated, but we don't currently have a plan to disable existing long-lived access tokens. (If that changes, we will of course announce that ahead of time.) That being the case, you can continue using existing long-lived access tokens as-is.

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