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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))
Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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3 years ago

bspindia Здравко is correct; your request is not formatted properly. You should use "Basic" authorization for that particular call, not "Bearer". Also, make sure you supply the necessary parameters as shown in the documentation. Check out step 5 in section 2 of this blog post for an example to translate.

  • bspindia's avatar
    bspindia
    Helpful | Level 7
    3 years ago
    i am getting the code when i manually enter url in browser, but how to get using fetch api 
    // authorization
    let dropBox = new Object();
    dropBox.apiKey = 'XXXXXXXXXX';
    dropBox.apiSecret = 'XXXXXXXXX';
    fetch('https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize',{method:'get',headers:{
       "Content-Type":"application/json",
       "client_id":dropBox.apiKey,
       "response_type":"code",
       "token_access_type":"offline",
       "state":"",
       "redirect_uri":"https://bspindia.online"
    }})
    .then(authReq=>authReq.json())
    .then(authRes=>{
       // obtain token
       console.log(authRes)
       // store token in indexedDB
    }).then(calldBox=>{
       // call api
    })
    • Здравко's avatar
      Здравко
      Legendary | Level 20
      3 years ago

      Hi bspindia,

      You cannot call /oauth2/authorize as regular API call (or similar)! This is address you should redirect to (either explicitly or with web link) your web session to let user authenticates. So you cannot use 'fetch'. To get some of results fields (including the code) you have to "catch" it in your browser address line. 😉 Example how you can get code may be seen here and how you can get access token (short lived) may be seen here. Again, 'fetch' or any other similar method to make a web request is inapplicable in this very first step! 'fetch' is usable for all remaining API calls (regular or not).

      Read the documentation with more attention to details (devil is in details 😈).

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
      Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
      3 years ago

      bspindia Здравко is correct; /oauth2/authorize is a web page, not an API call. It's where you should send the user, in their web browser, to authorize your app.

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