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rsd20
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5 years ago

API App Authentication Get List of files/folders from public link

Hi i'm looking for some advice on how to do the following and what best route of authentication / api end points I should use,   I need to be able to parse a dropbox business folder (can do this ...
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rsd20
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Hi Greg

 

Thank you for the response.  I am struggling to find a way of authenticating without user interaction.  As this service will need to run nightly and pull data files from drop box.

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

The initial authentication/authorization flow does require manual user interaction, but you can store and re-use the resulting access token after that for future use without further manual user interaction.

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