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ajay699patel
3 years agoNew member | Level 2
Uploading a file to own Dropbox account using API
Hi,
I want to upload the files from my machine to my own Dropbox account. I have created an App in Dropbox and generated an access token but it expires in sometime. How can I generate an access...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
3 years agoajay699patel Здравко is correct, Dropbox is in the process of switching to only issuing short-lived access tokens (and optional refresh tokens) instead of long-lived access tokens. You can find more information on this migration here.
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.
For reference, while the creation of new long-lived access tokens is now deprecated, we don't currently have a plan to disable existing long-lived access tokens. (If that changes, we will of course announce that ahead of time.) That being the case, you can continue using existing long-lived access token(s) without interruption, if you have any.
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