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MightyModest
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4 years ago

Refresh token not valid

I'm building a Flask app that sends files users post on their account to a shared Dropbox folder. It works fine with these short-lived 4-hour tokens, but as I prepare to move to deployment I need a l...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

MightyModest As Здравко noted, if you're using an official Dropbox SDK, you don't need to implement the refresh process yourself. The SDK will do that for you automatically as long as you provide the necessary credentials. For reference, in the PKCE example Здравко linked to, only the refresh token and app key is required. If you're not using PKCE to retrieve the refresh token initially though, you'll need to also supply the app secret, as in this example.

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