You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Conners
3 years agoNew member | Level 2
why do I get {"error": "Invalid OAuth2 token."}
I followed this article
https://dropbox.tech/developers/generate-an-access-token-for-your-own-account
but when I do this
curl https://api.dropbox.com/1/account/info -H "Authori...
Greg-DB
3 years agoDropbox Staff
Conners The blog post you referred to is very old and now out of date. As Здравко noted, you should now use /2/users/get_current_account instead of /1/account/info. And as they said, app's with the app folder access type cannot use shared folder functionality, such as /2/sharing/add_folder_member. You would need to register another app with "full Dropbox" access if you need to use that.
And as you found, Dropbox is in the process of switching to only issuing short-lived access tokens (and optional refresh tokens) instead of long-lived access tokens. You can find more information on this migration here.
Apps can still get long-term access by requesting "offline" access though, in which case the app receives a "refresh token" that can be used to retrieve new short-lived access tokens as needed, without further manual user intervention. You can find more information in the OAuth Guide and authorization documentation.
For reference, while the creation of new long-lived access tokens is now deprecated, we don't currently have a plan to disable existing long-lived access tokens. (If that changes, we will of course announce that ahead of time.) That being the case, you can continue using existing long-lived access token(s) without interruption, if you have any. Also, note though that after the change you won't be able to create new long-lived access tokens.
While the change began on September 30th 2021, we released it gradually, so you may not have seen your app(s) affected until more recently. Once it applies to your app, it would apply regardless of the "Access token expiration" setting for your app, and that setting may no longer be available for your app.
Finally, the library you linked to is not made by Dropbox, so we cannot offer support for the library itself, or guarantee that it is up to date with the latest functionality, such as for short-lived access tokens/refresh tokens.
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