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Eric B.37
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11 years ago

Migrating oauth1 to oauth2 using token_from_oauth1

I have been using Dropbox via the Sharpbox toolkit for a while.  It's based on oAuth1, so I have a database full of oAuth1 access tokens for my users. I'd like to convert to the new Dropbox API, wh...
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Eric B.37
New member | Level 2
11 years ago

here's a library for Twitter oAuth 1.0 (see http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=681) that actually makes it easy to make oAuth 1.0 authenticated calls. So the code below seems to work pretty well for me:

    oAuthTwitter oat = new oAuthTwitter();
    oat.Token = <oauth 1.0 token>;
    oat.TokenSecret = <oauth 1.0 secret>;
    oat.ConsumerKey = <application key>;
    oat.ConsumerSecret = <application secret>; 
    string resultJSON = oat.oAuthWebRequest(oAuthTwitter.Method.POST, "https://api.dropboxapi.com/1/oauth2/token_from_oauth1", null);

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