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mkirank
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Is there a way to get short lived app access token without user interaction on behalf of admin.

Is there a way to get short lived app access token without user interaction and on behalf of admin and use user impersonation to fetch user data.This is required for us as we are using a background s...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

No, Dropbox doesn't offer access tokens for an app itself. Dropbox access tokens are always for a particular app-team pair or app-user pair, both of which require authorization, from a team admin or user respectively.

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mkirank
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Ok.I am admin of a business account and let me know if there is some way for me to get team token onbhalf of my admin user account without manual user intervention.

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    Greg-DB
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    4 years ago

    The authorization for any team or user account always requires some sort of manual interaction, but note that the app can store and re-use the access token/refresh token after that.

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