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saurabh6790
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9 years ago
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How to get OAuth2 access token from OAuth1 token and secret with API v2

hi,   While creating an OAuth2 access token from OAuth1, I am getting error saying    Error in call to API function "auth/token/from_oauth1": Invalid value in HTTP header "Authorization": "Be...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    9 years ago

    Apologies for the confusion. The curl example in the documentation and API Explorer for /2/auth/token/from_oauth1 are unfortunately incorrect. I'll let the team know to fix that. 

    That endpoint actually uses app authentication ( https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/auth-types#app ), so a bearer access token isn't necessary. This is what the curl example should look like: 

    curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/auth/token/from_oauth1 \ 
        -u "APP_KEY:APP_SECRET" \ 
        --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ 
        --data "{\"oauth1_token\": \"OAUTH1_TOKEN_KEY\",\"oauth1_token_secret\": \"OAUTH1_TOKEN_SECRET\"}"

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