Dropbox short-lived access token
ID dropbox_short_lived_token
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
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Short-lived OAuth access token of the Dropbox API. Dropbox staff state that these tokens start with sl., while the deprecated long-lived tokens have no prefix. The regexp follows the gitleaks rule (sl. and 135 characters).
- Parent datatype
- Access token
access_token - Categories
- Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens)
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 70/100 · missing: examples, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- Datadog Sensitive Data Scanner, GitGuardian, GitHub secret scanning, Gitleaks
Regular expression
^sl\.[A-Za-z0-9=_-]{135}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| sl. invalid | Prefix without the secret |
Sources
- doc: https://docs.dropboxapi.com/dropbox-api/docs/oauth
- other: https://www.dropboxforum.com/discussions/101000042/is-dropbox-access-tokenwill-expire-after-some-time/554402
- other: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/blob/master/config/gitleaks.toml
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/dropbox_short_lived_token - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/secrets/dropbox_short_lived_token.yamlon GitHub