How To Generate access_token For Dropbox

The current version 1.0 of miniBRS relies on user to generate an access_token for his dropbox account and register it with miniBRS via dropbox_default connection id. The process we describe here is out of convention, We understand that in an actual environment you would require miniBRS to have an OAuth handshaking with the Dropbox server and abstract all token generation mechanism for you, We are working on making things better for our users and at this moment for the current version we would require you to generate the access_token for your account manually.

Here we shall be describing the steps for generating the access_token for your DropBox account. Let's get started

1. Hit the following URL www.dropbox.com/developers in your browser. Click on the App Console button on the top right side of the webpage, It will take you to the dropbox login page, If you are not logged in else you will be redirected to App Console webpage. Sign in with your credentials and proceed.

   

   
   

2. Once the login is success, a Create app button appears in the App Console page.

   

   Click on the Create app button, You will see DBX Platform screen with various setting options listed. choose the values for the options as shown below:

   • For Choose an Api option select Dropbox API.
   • For Type Access select Full Dropbox.
   • And in the last field choose any name for your app.

   
   

   

   
   

   After selecting all options as shown above, click on the Create app button at the bottom right, This will create an app for you. Once app is created by DBX platform you will be redirected to the App Console page and now you see an entry for your created app.

   
   

   

   
   

3. Click on the newly created app icon, In the Settings tab hit the Generate button, This will generate a 64 character long access_token.

   

   
   

   Congratulation, you have successfully generated your token. Copy it and paste it into the login field of dropbox_default connection id in the Airflow UI. Now You have successfully registered your dropbox storage with miniBRS