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How to refresh Dropbox access token with the (older) Dropbox library included with Pythonista?
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Hi all ---
Dropbox has started enforcing short-lived OAuth access tokens so it seems that any Pythonista scripts that want to use it will need to know how to either create or refresh access tokens if they've expired. It appears that current versions of the Dropbox Python library include convenience functions for doing this (e.g. get_and_refresh_access_token()) but those are not available in the version of the library that ships with Pythonista.
Has anyone been able to figure out how to refresh these tokens some other way? Or some other workaround to enable updated tokens to be used in Pythonista scripts?
Thanks in advance!
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For the record, I've also been trying to get an updated version of the official Dropbox library installed via Stash, but no luck. I'm running into the error describe here:
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I have created a modified version of dropboxlogin.py that generates short-lived access tokens. So far, it seems to work with dropbox version 6.4.0 that is provided with Pythonista.
First run will authorize your application and store a long-lived refresh token in your device keychain.
# simple test app import dropboxlogin dropbox_client = dropboxlogin.get_client() print('Getting account info...') account_info = dropbox_client.users_get_current_account() print('linked account:', account_info)
Useful links:
Migrating App access tokens
Dropbox OAuth GuideI was able to update dropbox to the latest version with this work around script which downloads the dropbox wheel and unzips the contents in site-packages. I had to use Stash pip to install the requests, six and stone. I'm still testing to see if it is better to stick with the original Pythonista dropbox version or to use the upgraded versions of dropbox, requests and six.
# workaround to install latest dropbox in pythonista # install requirements using stash pip # pip install requests # pip install six # pip install stone import sys, os import requests from zipfile import ZipFile sitepath = os.path.expanduser('~/Documents/site-packages-3') os.chdir(sitepath) from zipfile import ZipFile url = 'https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ef/64' url += '/2ef3c03ac039f9e5f29c0f557dc3f276241ef3c1627903a5f6a8c289cf24/' url += 'dropbox-11.7.0-py3-none-any.whl' dest_path = './dropbox.zip' r = requests.get(url) with open(dest_path, 'wb') as f: f.write(r.content) print('download complete...') with ZipFile(dest_path, 'r') as zip: # extracting all the files print('Extracting all the files now...') zip.extractall() print('Done!') os.remove(dest_path)
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Thanks @bosco. I was following a similar path with one of the
stash
developers at https://github.com/ywangd/stash/issues/409. I've now installeddropbox
via the wheel package, and dependencies viapip
. However I've not been able to get to work reliably, at least when called from within a Pythonista script triggered from a share sheet: it crashes immediately on my iPhone (never gets to the stack trace) and on my iPad the code runs but then hangs and hard-crashes at the end (reboots the iPad).Curious to know whether you've had better luck? I've done all my work by hand, rather than your more elegant solution to code it automatically. If yours worked I might try a fresh install of Pythonista and your approach.
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UPDATE: just confirmed that while I can get your approach to work from Pythonista itself, I'm unable to get it to work from a share sheet. It seems to crash / exit the share sheet during the authentication process.
Are you able to successfully call your little test script (above) from a share sheet?
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@felciano There appear to be 2 issues.
- Dropbox version 11.7.0 crashes when using the appex module.
- The keychain module does not work with the appex module.
You will need to use Dropbox 6.4.0 and you will need to store your refresh_token somewhere else besides keychain.
You can modify dropboxlogin like this:
#refresh_token = keychain.get_password('dropbox', 'refresh_token') refresh_token = "your_refresh_token"
You can then remove the dropbox folders from site-packages-3 or try this script which removes site-packages-3 from sys.path when running from a share sheet and temporarily reverts back to dropbox 6.4.0.
import sys import appex import console print('file', appex.get_file_path()) def test(): print(sys.path[1]) if appex.is_running_extension(): # if share sheet sys.path.remove(sys.path[1]) # remove site-packages-3 from sys.path import dropbox print('dropbox version', str(dropbox.__version__)) import dropboxlogin dropbox_client = dropboxlogin.get_client() print('Getting account info...') account_info = dropbox_client.users_get_current_account() print('linked account:', account_info) test()
If you are just trying to upload a file from a share sheet, this script does not use the dropbox module:
import sys, os, json, shutil import appex import console import keychain import requests from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth app_key = "your_app_key" app_secret = "your_app_secret" refresh_token = "your_refresh_token" def dropbox_token(refresh_token): data = {'refresh_token': refresh_token, 'grant_type': 'refresh_token'} try: r = requests.post('https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token', data=data, auth = HTTPBasicAuth(app_key, app_secret)) result = r.json() except: print(str(sys.exc_info())) return { 'refresh_token': None, 'access_token': None, 'error': {'.tag': str(sys.exc_info())} } #print('dbx:', result) return result def upload_file(source_filename, path): with open(source_filename, 'rb') as f: data = f.read() parms = {} parms['path'] = path parms['mode'] = 'overwrite' print (json.dumps(parms)) headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % (access_token,),'Dropbox-API-Arg': json.dumps(parms),'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream' } url = 'https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload' try: r = requests.post(url, stream=True, headers=headers, data=data) except: print("Exception requests: %s" % str(sys.exc_info())) result = r.json() return result local_path = os.path.expanduser('~/Documents/tmp') access_token = dropbox_token(refresh_token)['access_token'] files = appex.get_file_paths() if files != None and files != []: for i in range(len(files)): print('Input path: %s' % files[i]) basename = os.path.basename(files[i]) filename=os.path.join(local_path, basename) shutil.copy(files[i], filename) upload_file(basename, '/remote/dropbox/path/' + basename)