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I'm struggleing to download a single file from the API
Hello there,
I'm struggleing to download a single file from the API.
I'm supplying the app key and secret for App Authentication but I'm getting this error:
Error in call to API funct...
novaut wrote:...
One question for how long refresh_token is alive? Is it long-lived?
...
Hi novaut,
Yes, it's long lived token. The refresh token remains valid till explicit revoke either from application itself or user that granted access for your application to its data.
novaut wrote:...
I successfully got the file from Dropbox using the refresh_token and it doesn't ask for http authentication 🙂
...
You make me doubt you have understand everything correctly. You can download a file only with access token authentication, not directly with refresh token!!! The refresh token helps you keep receiving valid access token without further user actions. 😉 Hope this was just a confusion while typing.
Good luck.
Greg-DB wrote:... For instance, the examples under "App Authentication" show the use of /2/files/get_thumbnail_v2, which does support App Authentication, ...
🤔 Hm.. really... let's see this ' for instance':
curl -X POST "https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_thumbnail_v2" -u "<APP_KEY>:<APP_SECRET>" \ --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"resource\": {\".tag\": \"path\",\"path\": \"/a.docx\"},\"format\": \"jpeg\",\"size\": \"w64h64\",\"mode\": \"strict\"}"curl -X POST "https://<APP_KEY>:<APP_SECRET>@content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_thumbnail_v2" \ --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"resource\": {\".tag\": \"path\",\"path\": \"/a.docx\"},\"format\": \"jpeg\",\"size\": \"w64h64\",\"mode\": \"strict\"}"curl -X POST "https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_thumbnail_v2" \
--header "Authorization: Basic <base64(APP_KEY:APP_SECRET)>" \ --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"resource\": {\".tag\": \"path\",\"path\": \"/a.docx\"},\"format\": \"jpeg\",\"size\": \"w64h64\",\"mode\": \"strict\"}"
Which one is correct? 🧐 If any...
... Where is the error? 🙋
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffЗдравко Those three examples show three different ways of supplying the app key and secret to curl. I seems you're hinting that the calls overall don't make sense otherwise though as the use of the "path" in the sample parameters won't work for app authentication in particular. I'll ask the team to fix that up.
Hi Здравко,
I understood how it works.
One question for how long refresh_token is alive? Is it long-lived?
I successfully got the file from Dropbox using the refresh_token and it doesn't ask for http authentication 🙂
Thank you so much for your help 🙂
novaut wrote:...
One question for how long refresh_token is alive? Is it long-lived?
...
Hi novaut,
Yes, it's long lived token. The refresh token remains valid till explicit revoke either from application itself or user that granted access for your application to its data.
novaut wrote:...
I successfully got the file from Dropbox using the refresh_token and it doesn't ask for http authentication 🙂
...
You make me doubt you have understand everything correctly. You can download a file only with access token authentication, not directly with refresh token!!! The refresh token helps you keep receiving valid access token without further user actions. 😉 Hope this was just a confusion while typing.
Good luck.
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