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eni8ma
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago
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Simple Web App for getting info about a Dropbox Folder Content or File but Authorisation says NO??

Hey there all! I am quite new to all this. However I have working on a Webflow site that uses xano for the database and wized to run API calls and javascript functionality.  I am on a Business ...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    2 years ago

    Hi eni8ma,

    Yes, it's possible to pre-generate needed data (primarily refresh token) and latter use it. Keep in mind that you have to avoid credentials exposing (either access or refresh token) while your application works (that would be security issue). Take care with that part of design! Example of refresh token generation by yourself may be seen here. Once you have it, you can initialize one of Dropbox SDKs of your choice and proceed further without further user interaction. Also, you can perform API calls on your own (without official SDK), but you should take care to refresh access token as described (all SDKs do this internally) - the choice is yours. 😉

    Hope this clarifies matter.

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago

Hi eni8ma,

Yes, it's possible to pre-generate needed data (primarily refresh token) and latter use it. Keep in mind that you have to avoid credentials exposing (either access or refresh token) while your application works (that would be security issue). Take care with that part of design! Example of refresh token generation by yourself may be seen here. Once you have it, you can initialize one of Dropbox SDKs of your choice and proceed further without further user interaction. Also, you can perform API calls on your own (without official SDK), but you should take care to refresh access token as described (all SDKs do this internally) - the choice is yours. 😉

Hope this clarifies matter.

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eni8ma
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Thank you so much for your response! 

This gives me hope indeed, looks like I could actually implement this. Will try it out and thanks for the link, there is quite a in depth tutorial to do this so again thanks!

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