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Non expiring token kept on changing
So i tried following this article about obtaining my perm app token. I did the exact steps. but it always gives me a different Token when i try to access the link https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dro...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorDropbox is switching to issuing short-lived access tokens (and optional refresh tokens) instead of long-lived access tokens, so this is expected. You can find more information on this migration here. That being the case, you will get a short-lived access token by default. (You can identify a short-lived access token by the "sl." prefix.)
Apps can still get long-term access by requesting "offline" access though, in which case the app receives a "refresh token" that can be used to retrieve new short-lived access tokens as needed, without further manual user intervention. You can find more information in the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation.
While the change to only issue short-lived access tokens began on September 30th, we're releasing it gradually, so you may not have seen your app(s) affected until now. Once it applies to your app, it would apply regardless of the "Access token expiration" setting for your app, and that setting may no longer be available for your app.
Note that if you are not the programmer responsible for this integration, you may need to get an update from them to support this.
So is it no way other than that to get a perm token? I don't think offline mode work and I need the old way to function. I think that's the only thing stopping the code to work now which is a perm token that does not expire after 4 hours
- Greg-DB
To clarify, are you the programmer or an end-user of the app in question? If you are not the programmer of the app, you'll need to reach out to them for help.
For reference, the "offline" flow itself works, but it is something that would need to be implemented by the programmer of the app. In any case, the creation of new long-lived access tokens is being phased out and so may not be available for any given app.
I'm not the programmer, and the programmer is struggling to understand the dropbox document so i'm sort of asking on behalf of him. the above question was raised by the developer so I'm simply dropped it here.
- Greg-DB
Thanks for clarifying. In that case, please have the developer contact us directly if they need help implementing this. The specifics will depend on their existing code, platform, language, etc. They can contact us privately here if they prefer.
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