In my python website, I added dropbox refresh token, App key and Secret key. And in settings.py file I generate access token from these details.
Now, my question is that how it will get new auth token after refresh token after expire it . Settings.py loads only one time when build is done and project starts. after expire token, it giving errors.
Apps using the Dropbox API can get long-term access by requesting "offline" access, in which case the app receives a "refresh token" that can be used to automatically retrieve new short-lived access tokens as needed, without further manual user intervention. The refresh tokens themselves do not expire.
The Dropbox SDKs can handle this automatically for you. For the official Dropbox Python SDK, you can find examples of this flow at the following links:
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/main/example/oauth/commandline-oauth-scopes.py
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/main/example/oauth/commandline-oauth-pkce.py
Otherwise, if you're not using a Dropbox SDK, refer to the following resources for information on how to implement this process in your code:
https://developers.dropbox.com/oauth-guide
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#authorization
https://dropbox.tech/developers/using-oauth-2-0-with-offline-access
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I am trying to build an python application for my server to run 24 hours and overwrite a file in dropbox every minute. When I built this application it stopped working after an hours for new token. I can't awake 24 hour to add new token every token. I just want a way that help me in doing setup of this. With dropbox there is no option to remove short length expire from token. Please keep it simple to underatnd easily dropbox documentation is hard for me to understand.
I just want a solution for this problem. I tried refresh token but it also required user interaction so no use.
Using refresh tokens is the right solution here. Just like with Dropbox access tokens, manual user interaction is required initially to get a Dropbox refresh token, but once the app has a refresh token it can store and re-use it repeatedly without further manual user interaction.
For reference, 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.
You can find examples of using the OAuth app authorization flow in the Dropbox Python SDK here.
Good afternoon, I am making an API in which it will connect to the dropbox API, the problem stems from the fact that the token does not last long, which is unclear in the documentation, does anyone of you know how to obtain the token through the endpoint or That it does not expire, I would appreciate it.
I looked in the documentation and I don't understand it well and some video tutorials don't mention it.
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.
You can find examples of using the OAuth app authorization flow in the Dropbox Python SDK here
I just Started using Google Drive API using python to download File. I'm seeing it requires authentication for the first time and generates a token.pickle file. From next time onwards we can use this token file for API call.
Note : The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens.
What I needed to know is when this token file will expire ? If it expires then how to extend it's validity ?
I've gone through many google documentations but couldn't find anything clear regarding this.
If anyone can suggest me any info on this, that will be most welcomed.
Refresh tokens shouldn't expire but they can.
If the user removes your access though their Google account the refresh token will expire
if the refresh token has not been used in six months it will expire.
When you a user authenticates your application you get an access token and refresh token, if they authenticate your application again, you will get another access token and refresh token. You can have up to fifty refresh tokens for a users account and they will all work but after 50 the first one will expire.
Access tokens expire after an hour and you use the refresh token to request a new one.
Update for 2021
A Google Cloud Platform project with an OAuth consent screen configured for an external user type and a publishing status of "Testing" is issued a refresh token expiring in 7 days.
If your app's publishing status is in 'Testing', then the token will last for 2 weeks only.
If its publishing status is 'in Production' then the token has no expiry. However if any sensitive scopes are there and not verified in your app, then the number of users also limited.
These are all tested but seems no official documentation is available yet.
Does this quick-start code handle refresh tokens? If so, where/how?
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/quickstart-python
I am working on a Python application that needs to have continuous/unfettered access to Gmail account emails, so I want to make sure that I am handling the scenario described on this page:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/auth/web-server#send_authorized_requests_and_check_for_revoked_credentials
Specifically, the "If your application requires offline access, the first time your app exchanges the authorization code, it also receives a refresh token that it uses to receive a new access token after a previous token has expired. Your application stores this refresh token (generally in a database on your server) for later use" paragraph.
It's not clear to me if/how this is handled by the quick-start code. Thanks!
I figured this out. The refresh token, if saved for offline access by the application, is used to perpetually request new access tokens (as they are short lived/expire). This quick-start code does save the refresh token in the stored credentials (the STORAGE file) and wraps the Oauth 2.0 methods that get new access tokens from the authorization server when needed.
If for some reason you need to get another refresh token, you can request one from the authorization server, after making the user to approve your application again:
From https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/auth/web-server
"Always store user refresh tokens. If your application needs a new refresh token it must sent a request with the approval_prompt query parameter set to force. This will cause the user to see a dialog to grant permission to your application again."
More info about authorization server requests:
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2WebServer
Just to add,Limits apply to the number of refresh tokens that are issued per client-user combination, and per user across all clients, and these limits are different. If your application requests enough refresh tokens to go over one of the limits, older refresh tokens stop working.
I am trying to use the Google Contacts API to connect to a user's contact information, on my Google apps domain.
Generating an access_token using the gdata api's ContactsService clientlogin function while using the API key for my project works fine, but I would prefer to not store the user's credentials, and from the information I have found that method uses OAuth1.0
So, to use OAuth2.0 I have:
Generated a Service Account in the developer's console for my project
Granted access to the service account for the scope of https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/ in the Google apps domain admin panel
Attempted to generate credentials using SignedJwtAssertionCredentials:
credentials = SignedJwtAssertionCredentials(
service_account_name=service_account_email,
private_key=key_from_p12_file,
scope='https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/',
sub=user_email')
The problem I am running into is that attempting to generate an access token using this method fails. It succeeds in generating the token when I remove the sub parameter, but then that token fails when I try to fetch the user's contacts.
Does anyone know why this might be happening?