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bspindia
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago
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legacy token

my token is expiring while making api calls and getting unauthorised error due to short live tokens, how to generate unexpired token  please assist regards, Sikandar
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  • bspindia's avatar
    bspindia
    3 years ago
    Hurray made it
     
    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=***refreshtoken******");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, '**AppKey' . ':' . '***AppSecret*****');

    $headers = array();
    $headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    echo $result;
     
    if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
    }
    curl_close($ch);
bspindia's avatar
bspindia
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago
i am trying to take code in res please correct headers, right now i am having error as invalid_request
 
fetch('https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token',{method:'post',headers:{
"Content-Type":"application/json",
"Authorization":"Bearer "+dropBox.apiKey+":"+dropBox.keySecret,
}}).then(req=>req.json()).then(res=>console.log(res)).catch(error=>console.log(error))
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago

Hi bspindia,

The call /oauth2/token doesn't support Bearer authorization. It's used to receive such a token, not to use it. Can be used Basic authorization to pass application key and secret or pass them as parameters. Depending on exact step you are performing other parameters should be passed too, but you are skipping them in your code. Take a look on the documentation.

Hope this sheds some light.

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