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Re: Oauth2 refresh token question - what happens when the refresh token expires?
When I'm trying to fetch short-lived access token I'm getting this error
Client error: `POST https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token` resulted in a 400 Bad Request response: {"error_description":...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThe access token you posted, which starts with "sl.", is a Dropbox OAuth 2 access token. Note that you should never post these publicly though, so please refrain from doing so in the future.
The "sl." prefix indicates that this particular access token is a "short-lived" access token, meaning that it was only valid for four hours, after which it can no longer be used to successfully perform Dropbox API calls. When a short-lived access token like this expires, if you need to make further calls, you would need to get a new one. You would do so either by using a refresh token, or by processing the OAuth app authorization flow again. I recommend reading the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation for more information.
Also, the "token/from_oauth1" route in particular you linked to is only meant for use with old OAuth 1 access tokens, retrieved from the old retired Dropbox API v1. If you do not have old OAuth 1 access tokens stored that you need to migrate, you should not use that route. If you are just developing your integration now, you would not have any OAuth 1 access tokens.
Yes I followed the same oauth process and i found the token starting with sl.<token> but i'm getting this error using that token
Server error: `POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search_v2` resulted in a `500 Internal Server Error` response: unexpected error occurred
- Greg-DB
A 500 error like that should indicate an issue on the Dropbox servers. If you're still seeing this issue, please share the code/steps to reproduce that, as well as several sample 'X-Dropbox-Request-Id' response header values. That should help us investigate. (Be sure to redact your access token though.) Thanks!
Here is my code
env('DROPBOX_TOKEN') is access token sl.<access token>
$this->client = new Client(env('DROPBOX_TOKEN'));
$this->adapter = new DropboxAdapter($this->client);$checkFolderAvailable = $this->client->search('test');
in this search function i'm getting 500 error
- Greg-DB
Thanks, can you share several sample 'X-Dropbox-Request-Id' response header values though?
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