We are developing application that needs write access to restricted data types. And looks like Google has stopped taking new request for whitelisting apps.
https://developers.google.com/fit/android/data-types#restricted_data_types
Note: Google has temporarily stopped taking new requests to write to restricted data types. We are updating our policy and process for reviewing requests and will update this documentation again when we resume.
Does anyone from Google have any idea when they will resume it?
Also: Is there a way to implement/write restricted data in development environment or debug build without whitelisting, and whitelist app before going to production?
There is no timeline yet for when this will be available.
(Source: I work on Google Fit)
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I'm trying to write a Python program that uses Google Drive to do some custom backup and sync work from my Linux desktop.
I started using the PyDrive2 library, and followed its recommendations on how to sign up for Drive API access. When I run my program, it accesses Drive as I'd expect it to, but my authorization expires after a few hours, which is not going to work for a program that runs in cron. I thought this might be because my app is not verified, so I looked into verification, but it's asking for things like a my application's home page. Mine isn't a web-based application, so I don't have one.
Is there a good way to access Google Drive APIs from a non-web application?
if your access is expireing after only a few hours it sounds like you are not requesting offline access and storing the refresh token for later use.
If you followed Quickstart pyton You may have noticed this section. The users credetinals that being the refresh otken and the access token are stored in token.json for future use by your application.
# The file token.json stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is
# created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first
# time.
if os.path.exists('token.json'):
creds = Credentials.from_authorized_user_file('token.json', SCOPES)
I thought this might be because my app is not verified, so I looked into verification, but it's asking for things like a my application's home page.
Your application only really needs to be verified if you are going to have other uses using it. If your only using it yourself then you really only need to remove it from testing phase and put it into production then your refresh tokens will last longer then seven days.
You could try to use a service account but i don't know of anyone who has gotten service account authorization to work with curl.
I previously had a content script that fetched the code and ran it through eval so that I could update the extension instantly for all users, without waiting for everyone's extensions to update.
From the migration guide:
Externalize logic with a remote service—Consider migrating application logic from the extension to a remote web service that your extension can call. (Essentially a form of message passing.) This provides you the ability to keep code private and change the code on demand while avoiding the extra overhead of resubmitting to the Chrome Web Store.
My question is, how can I do this? What exactly does this mean?
I'm developing some automation/integration between a CRM software and my google account. I am attempting to use the Google Apps Script API so I can remotely execute functions in Google Apps Script through the integration I'm building from within the CRM software.
The only problem is, when attempting to run a function which calls a GAS function through the API, I get the following error:
"Apps Script API has not been used in project project number before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/script.googleapis.com/overview?project=103424032563 then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry."
This would normally be no problem, as I would simply access the GCP portal through the link and enable the GAS API, but when I try to access my project, I don't have access at all, and get the "failed to load data" error.
Further complicating my issue, GCP support will not help because they suspect I am a hacker trying to obtain access to a project that, for all they know, isn't mine.
And because I cannot access this project to authorize the API, I also cannot associate my google script with the same project, as this is a requirement for the Google Apps Script API to function.
I suspect it's the CRM software piece in which I'm developing this integration that is causing this error, (somehow the GCP project is being created by a different user,) but they haven't been all that helpful in determining what's going on.
Have any of you had a similar situation? And, if so, how did you approach solving it?
Further complicating my issue, GCP support will not help because they
suspect I am a hacker trying to obtain access to a project that, for
all they know, isn't mine.
Google Support does not refuse to help. They don't accuse you of being a hacker. Google Support can look at the project and see if you have credentials in the project and if you do they can explain how to authorize yourself. However, Google Support requires a support agreement, which is not free. If you do not have one, then you are not entitled to technical support only billing support. Look up your billing account ID and send a request for billing support. Your billing account will also show you which projects are linked to your billing account.
The issue is that you are trying to access the wrong Project ID. Figure out what is the correct Project ID. If you have the Cloud SDK installed execute this command gcloud projects list and this will tell you which projects your credentials have access to.
Despite fervent searches, I don't believe I have come up with quite the results I am needing. Within the Google Apps for Business Administrator console, under "Reports" there is the "Audit Log." This audit log nearly displays everything I need; however, I am needing the actual name of the file instead of the fileID provided in the report.
The ultimate endgame is to generate, via Google Script, an automated daily report that gives this same data to a few users daily. Is there any means by which I may access this data? I have been pouring over the APIs, and perhaps I've missed something, but I don't feel that I've found what I needed.
Any thoughts and help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and considerations.
This is possible using the Google Apps Admin Audit API. This uses OAuth and that is a bit tricky to setup sometimes. You can see the set up process in this video that we did. Except as the example shows, instead of the YouTube APIs enable the Apps Reporting and Audit APIs in the API Console.
I built out a simple example of this that you can see in operation. Access this URL after having been logged in as the domain admin. It will automatically create a Spreadsheet in your Drive with the latest Audit logs exported. This is a web app that is deployed as "Run as user".
I've open sourced this Github here. You should substitute in the right OAuth2 Client ID/Secret. The code is pretty rough so you'll want to clean it up. I am selectively logging a few columns but if you look at the API docs, there are other things you can log as well.
Once the OAuth token is set up you can have this run on a trigger as well as long as you refresh the token.
Hope this helps.
I was developing android application that has backup to google drive feature.
I have used Simple API Access key and it worked like a charm for few weeks.
However, from yesterday, it does not work at all. (cannot list uploaded files and 403 fobidden error when trying to upload new file) I checked Google APIs Console and found out
Simple API Access
Status: Inactive
and Reports is not available and keeps showing popup message "An unexpected error has occurred. We're looking into it."
I googled about this message but there is no solution. (but found several issues related to google cloud SQL)
I was considering to use google drive on commercial level android app and this is very bad...
I wonder what is the problem and how to reactivate api status.
Thanks :)
Unfortunately, because of the security model of the Drive SDK, we need to be sure that an application is who they say they are, which simple access does not give enough assurance of. For a commercial application, this strength of security is great for users.
For a solution, you need to use Google Play Services as outlined in the documentation. We are currently working on a guide to get started with this very quickly on Android, and should be available within the next week.