Refresh Token

I'm trying to create a convex action to pull file content from Dropbox, any recommendation on how to set the API auth? I see I need to refresh tokens so I'm considering a cron job every 3 hours because the Access Tokens expire every 4 hours.

Hmza•3/12/25, 7:36 PM

Mostly with APIs, refresh token is provided when access token is generated. So you could save the access token and if request fails on access token expired code (checking response code) then you can use an action to renew the access token before continuing with the request. That is how i’d do it, i think a cron job would work just fine but it’ll bloat an extra function running every 4 hours.

Hmza•3/12/25, 7:38 PM

Also ‘Workpool’ component would be a good fit here i think

Gorka CesiumOP•3/12/25, 9:49 PM

sounds good, and I'm thinking about persisting the accesstoken in a table in convex