Ok what am I missing here how do I get my token to last longer than a day? Anyone out there know how to do this and this is a production token I am using. Incorporating their new system into my scripts was a nightmare in itself now it's a expiring token issue.
,This may sound like a dumb question but how do I a token that last longer than a day or two? I got it all working but my token keeps expiring on me so I have to get a new one.
that´s the security concept of a token: as less, it lives, as more secure it is. if someone is able to catch your token, that person is able to use that for only 2 hours. that might not prevent you from any damage to your (or the user's account) - but if that token would live much longer, u can guess what could happen in that time.
TLDR; as mentioned here: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/oauth-refresh-token-request.html - there is no parameter you can use to decide, how long a token lives, ebay is in control of generating the tokens and has a fixed lifetime for them. it´s up to you to use the refresh token to get a new token every 2 hours.
if you don't have to deal with end-customers-accounts, you still can get an auth'n'auth token, which has a lifetime of several months - but that kind of token is not usable for all apis. especially the new APIs require an oauth token.
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