1. Create a DropBox Account

If you don't already have one, visit the DropBox website (https://www.dropbox.com) to create a DropBox account.

2.  Create a DropBox App

• Visit the App console of  Dropbox Developer Console: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps

• Click on "Create app"

• Select “Scoped access” in Choose an API

• Choose “App folder” in type of App and set a name for your App

Your Dropbox app for getting data from ScrapeHero has been successfully created. You can access your created apps from the app console: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/

3.  Set App permissions

• Open you app from App console and go to permissions

• Enable all 4 permissions in the Files and folders section and click submit

4.  Generate an Authorization code

• Goto ‘settings’ and find the App key

• Authorization code can be generated by opening the below URL.

https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<APP_KEY>&token_access_type=offline&response_type=code

Replace <APP_KEY> with your Dropbox app key

• Click on ‘Continue’

• Click on ‘Allow’

• Authorisation code will get generated as below

5.  Generate a Refresh Token

Please copy the authorization code and use it to send the provided cURL POST request below in order to generate a refresh token for the Dropbox app.

For AUTHORIZATIONCODEHERE, use the code obtained in step 3

APPKEY and APPSECRET can be obtained from settings section of app

You will get a response like below,

{

    "access_token": "sl.ByhMVNG3XkXEMapmCN4lU5KSfxUNTb62QuTREtnWXHyRNM1dzLSGwmil5EFJQEBhnLdOv",

    "token_type": "bearer",

    "expires_in": 14400,

    "refresh_token": "JdBkMuDBOywAAAAAAAAAAW082__gXOZjhjN_LImS97gkbZe",

    "scope": "account_info.read files.content.read files.content.write files.metadata.read files.metadata.write",

    "uid": "117779",

    "account_id": "dbid:AADl0eRklSeWO2UNqvM"

}

Please share the “refresh_token”, “App key”, and “App secret” with us to upload data to your DropBox account.

Note: If you encounter any other invalid responses such as an expired code, please proceed to generate a new authorization code (step 3) and then retry step 4 with the newly generated authorization code.