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Ghulam A.'s avatar
Ghulam A.
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10 years ago

Is linking necessary to download files?

Is it possible to download files from my app folder (Dropbox) to my app without linking an account? If so, how would I do that?
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

You just need to call credentialStoreForUserID once to get your access token/secret, which you can do anywhere in the app, as long as the account is already linked. That would look like:

 MPOAuthCredentialConcreteStore *creds = [[DBSession sharedSession] credentialStoreForUserId:@"12345"];
 NSLog(@"access token key: %@ secret: %@", creds.accessToken, creds.accessTokenSecret);

(Where 12345 is your user ID.)

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