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gsanvel
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Raspberry Pi File Transfer: Access Token Keeps Expiring

Hi all,   I'm new to this space and I'm having trouble making it so that my access token doesn't expire. I simply want to upload some videos that the Raspberry Pi cam record onto my Dropbox. Belo...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago

Hi gsanvel,

Probably the "Access Key (hidding for privacy)" denotes the place for you access token. Take in mind that the access tokens, used in all API calls, validity is limited to 4 hours only! Maybe you have thought to use long lived access token. If so, you have to be aware that such tokens type is obsolete and their generation is dropped already, despite generated can still be used; i.e. you can't create new such token. Replacement of long lived access token is usage of refresh token. Take a look here how you can create a Dropbox client object in such a way. 😉 Once created you can use it in the way you want to.

Unfortunately Dropbox doesn't provide support for ARM hardware (the only exception is Apple's M1). 🤷

Hope this clarifies matter.

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