---
id: "dropbox_short_lived_token"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["secrets"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 70
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/dropbox_short_lived_token"
---

# Dropbox short-lived access token (`dropbox_short_lived_token`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens) (secrets)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^sl\.[A-Za-z0-9=_-]{135}$
```

## Examples

- `sl.` (invalid example) — Prefix without the secret

## Supported by tools

- `datadogsds`
- `gitguardian`
- `githubsecretscanning`
- `gitleaks`

## 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>

## Quality

Score 70/100. Missing: examples, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/dropbox_short_lived_token.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/secrets/dropbox_short_lived_token.yaml>