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Laura Ruggeri's avatar
Laura Ruggeri
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5 years ago

Dropbox Api oauth2/authorize grant_type client_credential

In my app we have chosen the personal mailbox as the main service in the cloud to synchronize data with the central system. We currently have our customers who sign up for the service with our app g...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

The Dropbox API does not support the "client_credential" grant type, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

Laura Ruggeri's avatar
Laura Ruggeri
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

I imagined and from what I understand you do not give a certain solution.
For those who have developed processes that do not require user intervention, what should we do?
Migrate to another platform?

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    5 years ago

    While the initial authorization needs manual user intervention to authorize the app, the user does not need to be present after that. If your app requires long-term access without the user present, you should request "offline" or "background" access via the OAuth app authorization flow. That way, you can get a refresh token that you can use to retrieve short-lived access tokens whenever needed without further manual user intervention.

     

    Please refer to the OAuth Guide and documentation, as well as this post, for more information.

    • Laura Ruggeri's avatar
      Laura Ruggeri
      Helpful | Level 5
      5 years ago

      Ok. Is this approach implemented in the C # SDK by Dropbox.Api?
      Since from the console platform you give the possibility to generate an access token, wouldn't it be possible to generate a refresh token to be used later by applications to request the access token?

       

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        5 years ago

        The official Dropbox API v2 .NET SDK does support short-lived access tokens and refresh tokens. You can find example code here.

         

        The "Generate" button on the app info page on the App Console does not currently offer the ability to generate a refresh token, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

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