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Yael L.'s avatar
Yael L.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Login and authenticate without browser

Is it possible to login to Dropbox and authenticate/allow an app to access files in dropbox without a browser?

Like via ajax or curl? I am thinking if there will be no UI.

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

    No, the Dropbox OAuth app authorization flow requires the user to visit the Dropbox site in a browser to authorize the app. That only needs to be done once per user though, after which the app can store and re-use the resulting access token.

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

    Yes, this is a part of the API and applies to all of the SDKs.

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