Can I Use Pipedream Connect to Enable User Interactions with Dropbox on the Advanced Plan Without Using Workflows?

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hey folks, i’m still unsure what is and what is not allowed when using Pipedream Connect. I’m on the advanced plan. I want to enable my users to connect their Dropbox or whatever application account so that our app can call API operations for them (not using Pipedream workflows). Is this allowed in production?

Seems that the docs say that running workflows for users in production is only for Business tier users, which seems ok for me, but if we handle the logic (no workflow) fine?

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Hey Stevie, was just responding to your email, but I’ll respond here — yea if you’re intending to just use the managed auth product (let your users connect their accounts, then retrieve their credentials to make API requests from your application), you can do that on any plan in production. Are you running into an error somewhere?

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ah sweet! thanks for responding here. i didnt realize there was a slack channel which is better.

no i’m not running into an error - i was just parsing through the docs to ensure it made sense for our business

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and so to clarify, we can have up to 1k users connected via this flow before we must move to a custom (business) plan?

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Yea, admittedly, we need to clean up the pricing page, I agree it’s a bit confusing

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That’s right. One caveat to be aware of, is that you’ll need to use your own OAuth clients in order to retrieve the credentials for any connected account for OAuth apps.

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What apps are you looking to integrate, and do you have your own OAuth clients already?

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no we don’t have our own oauth clients but i think we can set them up.

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so this means that the default flow with Pipedream handling the connection is a no-go right?

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For many apps it’s not a big hurdle, but it just depends on the app and how many you’re looking to integrate.

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Here are the docs on OAuth clients for Connect: GitHub

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re: what apps - mostly cloud storage solutions right now i.e. dropbox, gdrive, onedrive, etc.

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What kind of app are you building?

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we’re mostly trying to connect their apps so that we can directly download large files to our servers from their configured and preferred sources, process them (render them technically) and reupload to their preferred destinations

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Cool. Have you seen the demo app we have that shows off the components API? It’s basically an example implementation that demonstrates how you can also embed any of our prebuilt triggers or actions directly in your app.

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yeah i’ve read through most of the docs and have this running locally haha

but wouldn’t “prebuilt triggers” be a business tier thing?

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That’s right, yea. That API / SDK requires the Business tier to run in production.