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I am getting invalid_url again and again with /save_url, https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/save_url
Hi, I have an app that uses https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/save_url/save_url endpoint to save urls from my ecommerce store to my dropbox. It was working fine early on locally bu as soon as I ha...
Hi ABDUL Salam,
You don't need to tag any slash! The backslashes you added make your link invalid (and not only - the next error would be that your path in invalid too). Trace where those data are coming from, in your code, and fix whatever needed.
By the way it's not a good practice to pass access token directly. Better build one 'opaque' structure holding all authentication data and pass that structure instead. You can get access token as result of dedicated function that get as param the same 'opaque' structure. Inside such a function you can trace whether access token is going to expire (let's say there are less that 5 or 3 mins) or already expired and if so perform a refresh. In such a way you won't need to do it in every API call (or another place), but instead in every API call, you will call to that function (that's responsible to all common things of authentication, including refresh whenever needed - there implement that last step we talked about previous). 😉
Also keep in mind that validity period is NOT something fixed! It's denoted in seconds when you receive access token and in spite typically 4 hours that's NOT something mandatory - can be less in some cases. Once you receive access token calculate expiration moment (based on current moment and validity period) and store that moment for future reference.
Hope this gives directions.
Hi Здравко
Firstly would like to appreciate your suggestion related to coding practices.
Basically, this body with slashes is the output
json_encode($payload);that I have sent in my curl request.
Also, the main issue is if I manually run my script from the terminal locally using php script.php
It works perfectly with the same code.
But when I schedule it as a cron job on my server this script does not run as it runs locally, it does complete code flow and return me async_job_id in response but when I check using this async_job_id it always gives me this
{
".tag": "failed",
"failed": {
".tag": "invalid_url"
}
}I wonder what could be the reason.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
ABDUL Salam As Здравко said, the backslashes you have in the output you shared here are not expected or accepted in the URL, so make sure those aren't in the actual data you're sending to the API.
As for why this works locally but not on your server, does your server have a different version of any libraries you're using? Or are you perhaps using a different URL value on the server?
in curl, I passed the payload as a json_encoded body which adds these slashes, but I have also hardcoded an HTTPS URL in the payload as
$payload= ["path" => "myPathHere",
"url" => "https://abc.com/"]
and then json encoded that in curl and it worked, but it's not working with dynamic url's
such as$payload= [
"path" => "myPathHere",
"url" => $url, //my dynamic URL comes here]
still figuring it out on my side why it's happening.- payload:{"path":"/2023/November/#1135/GOLF-P-WE-AU-BLACK/#1135_GOLF-P-WE-AU-BLACK.eps","url":"https://cdn.customily.com/ExportFile/pf-dev-3/cfa42d7e-4418-47af-b120-83e9ca35b1c1.eps"}uploaded customily orders to dropbox: {".tag": "async_job_id", "async_job_id": "ruN7OyTfOucAAAAAAAAAAQ"} 200payload:{"path":"/2023/November/#1134/GOLF-P-WE-AU-BLACK/#1134_GOLF-P-WE-AU-BLACK.eps","url":"https://cdn.customily.com/ExportFile/pf-dev-3/a4da1953-2618-4e17-8f60-4c81e776f0a0.eps"}uploaded customily orders to dropbox: {".tag": "async_job_id", "async_job_id": "Tz3sCHoe4-EAAAAAAAAAAQ"} 200
these are logs of my cron job
and against these async_job_id's I am gettingalthough my URL in body seem valid{".tag": "failed","failed": {".tag": "invalid_url"}}
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