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sydneyfr
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

How to get token access into dropbox without it expiring (or copy .httr-oauth file)

I'd like to use dropbox as a remote storage center for some text files created by a deployed Shiny app. I need web users to be able to submit to a form which writes these files back to dropbox. In RS...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago

Hi sydneyfr,

Long lived access token is deprecated already long time ago. In spite existing long lived tokens can still be used as such, all new issued access tokens are short lived! To keep long term access, you need to handle token refresh using refresh token. If you're using official SDK, refreshing gets internally, while if you use you own implementation take a look here, for instance.

Hope this gives direction.

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