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SimonR27
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
OAuth through Unity or permanent token
Hello, I'm making this post due to some issues I was encountering whilst doing an implementation of the API for an application in the Unity Game Engine. The use of the Dropbox API, is quite simple as...
DB-Des
Dropbox Engineer
2 years agoHi there,
Dropbox does not offer the option for permanent tokens. However, apps can get long-term access by requesting "offline" access, 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. Refresh tokens do not expire automatically and can be used repeatedly. 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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