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chainsbomb
2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Solution for Dropbox API where I have a non-standard setup.
My app is single-page server-side javascript/HTML, but I don't use Node. This seems to mean that I can't just import {Dropbox} from 'dropbox' I am able to access use the chooser and saver by usin...
djschoch
1 year agoExplorer | Level 3
Greg-DB,
Thank you SO MUCH for your help. This is exactly the jumpstart I needed. I fumbled a bit, but I now have a basic call working successfully. Your help is very much appreciated.
One last question (this is probably in the documentation somewhere; I apologize for being lazy at the moment): Can you show how to get a current access token, based on my appKey (and appSecret?)? Also, how long is the access token valid?
THANKS again,
-Dan-
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
1 year agodjschoch Check out the example here to see how to process the OAuth app authorization flow with the Dropbox JavaScript SDK to get an access token.
Dropbox issues short-lived access tokens which are valid for a few hours. You can get the exact expiration information from the API when it returns the access token, e.g., it would be available in 'response.result.expires_in' in the getAccessTokenFromCode callback in that example.
You can find more information on the authorization functionality in the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation.
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