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Migrating access token from API v1 to v2
Hello,
I am trying to migrate our API to version 2 and followed the migration guide with no success(https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/migration-guide ).
Just one example is that I am using the link below in order to connect my excel spreadsheet with our BI tool using the api v.1 and access token.
https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/auto/bbbb/aaa.xlsx?access_token=FJCKHGCGFCsWSwSsSAwSsSGssSSg...
Can you please help me to migrate this example to api version2 and use this example to migrate the rest of the links?
Many thanks and I am looking forward for your response.
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
In that example, you're using /1/files to access file data. In API v2, the replacement is /2/files/download:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-download
That's a "content-download endpoint", so the standard way of using that is via a POST with 'Authorization' and 'Dropbox-API-Arg' headers. To just use a GET with it instead though, i.e., so you can just use a URL by itself, you can use the URL parameters documented here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#formats
So, to access a file at "/bbbb/aaa.xlsx" the API call parameters for /2/files/download would be:{"path": "/bbbb/aaa.xlsx"}URL encoding those for use with the `arg` URL parameter, along with the 'authorization' URL parameter, the result would be:
https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download?authorization=Bearer%20ACCESS_TOKEN&arg=%7B%22path%22%3A%20%22%2Fbbbb%2Faaa.xlsx%22%7D
Be sure to replace ACCESS_TOKEN with the actual access token.
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