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muratzeuz
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10 months ago

Mobile App Integration Just For Displaying Files

Hello, I have files (image, video, pdf, msoffice files etc.) that I need to submit to the approval of more than one customer. Then I want to show the files in the folder in my dropbox account according to the customer who has logged in to a mobile application developed by myself. My customer will only view the files and give approval to some of them. I want to get the name of the files he approves and delete the rest from my account in the folder belonging to the customer.

Is there any alternative to connect to my account with oauth2 - refresh token to do all this? If I can only do it with oauth2 and refresh token, can you help me by giving details about it.

Thank you.

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    DB-Des
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    10 months ago

    Hi muratzeuz

    Dropbox does use OAuth 2.0 to authorize access to a user's data.

    When working with the Dropbox APIs, your app will access Dropbox on behalf of your users. You'll need to have each user of your app sign into dropbox.com to grant your app permission to access their data on Dropbox.

    You can find everything you need to get started with the Dropbox API, including documentation, tutorials, and SDKs here:

    https://www.dropbox.com/developers

    Additionally, there is also a way to retrieve a refresh token to then retrieve short-lived access tokens as needed, without further manual user intervention. You can find more information in the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation. There's a basic outline of processing this flow in this blog post which may serve as a useful example.

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