So what I'm trying to do is to fetch data from gmail API using unix's shell (curl).
I simply copied this from the json generator to be able to play with the json when I used with curl.
GET https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/somebody%40gmail.com/messages?
maxResults=5&includeSpamTrash=false&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Then I changed the API_KEY by what I was able to generate in my developer console. However, I cannot get the desired json when I put the link in my browser, or curl it in my shell. How do I generate the right key? Because I already generated from all of the choices in the Credentials.
Thanks!
What you generate in the Console is the Client ID and Client secret, which are used when you redirect your users to Google. Upon accepting, Google then redirects the user to the url you specify in the console with a code. This code is then finally used to retrieve the Access Token which you should use as {YOUR_API_KEY}.
Go to Google OAuth 2.0 Playground, and use the Gmail API v1 scopes, and retrieve the access token and use it in your shell.
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In Postman, I have my GET request set up to where I can get the correct access key using grant_type, client_id, client_secret, and resource in my request body.
I'm trying to get this working in Google App Script, however there does not appear to be a setResource function. I've looked through the documentation and could not find an alternative. Is it possible to somehow set the resource to get the proper access key with Google App Script OAuth2?
https://github.com/googleworkspace/apps-script-oauth2/blob/master/dist/OAuth2.gs
You can set an additional parameter for constructing the authorization URL by using .setParam().
.setParam('resource', 'https://storage.azure.com/')
I'm trying to use the reddit api in a practice app to practice parsing JSON in Swift, and I've registered to get an access token, but now I'm confused as to where to put it. In other APIs I've used, I'd just put the access token string (?) somewhere in the endpoint url and that would be it, but I can't see anything pertaining to that in the documentation. For example if I'm trying to access https://api.reddit.com/api/v1/top/, where would I add my access token?
In the OAuth documentation is says to use the url https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/authorize?client_id=CLIENT_ID&response_type=TYPE&
state=RANDOM_STRING&redirect_uri=URI&duration=DURATION&scope=SCOPE_STRING but that seems to need:
CLIENT_ID
RANDOM_STRING
URI
DURATION
SCOPE_STRING
I plugged in all the necessary values according to the documentation, and it redirected me to the front page of reddit (I gave https://www.reddit.com/ as my redirect uri)
In previous practice apps with other APIs, I would simply have a single url (that included my auth token) and I'd plug that url into my function that parses the data. Now that I've followed the OAuth directions, I still can't seem to find an endpoint url that I can use in my app.
I tried https://api.reddit.com/api/v1/top in my browser and it says {"message": "Unauthorized", "error": 401}, and I tried https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/myAccessToken where myAccessToken is the string they gave me when I registered. This leads me to a "page not found" on Reddit.
What do I need to do here to get a basic endpoint url that gives me the JSON data for, just for example, recent posts?
I have a lightweight node.js module that needs to pull from google drive. They have a REST/HTTPS interface but AFAICT it's only accessible via their SDK. I want to use REST/HTTPS so I don't have to use an SDK. Is this possible for file download? For file find (file:list e.g. https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/reference/files/list)?
I don't understand why you think it's only accessible using an SDK. The link you posted clearly shows the URL endpoint, lists the optional parameters and gives the format of the JSON response.
If you click "Try it now" and open your browser console, you will see the http request and response which you can mirror in your app.
The only thing you also need to consider is that before making a REST request to Google, you must obtain an Access Token and set it in an Authorization: Bearer xxxxxxxx header, or provide it as a query parameter as &access_token=xxxxxxxxx
I am trying to get data from Box api without using the access token, the folder containing data is a shared folder containing files that can be updated by box admin.I want to use the rest api and get the metadata of changed files and use that in the app.
so far i have not been able to access the data without using the oauth auth_token.
is there any way, that i can access the data without using the auth_token(i.e without making the user to log into the app?)
You cannot access the Box API without an OAuth2 access token. The user must authorize your application, or, if you're working within an enterprise you can use an administrative access token (i.e. a 'service' token) to access the data.
Oauth2 access token is used for authentication and authorization during any Box API call. You need to get access token before making any Box API call. This link provides details about how to get the access token for making API calls.
https://box-content.readme.io/reference#authorize
Hi I have a very simple Google Apps Script, i.e. one that is created when in Google Drive and click create and then script.
What I would like to be able to do is have users authenticate using the oauth 2 protocol, receive the authorisation code and exchange that for an access token and refresh token. This requirement is for an IPhone app so I would rather save the refresh token so users do not have to login repeatedly.
My issue is that I do seem be able to get the access and refresh token, I can see the client_id of the app in the url returned from the authentication step, however I believe I also need client_secret to request the access and refresh token from:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token.
I'm asking it this even possible, if so do you know of any examples and if not could you recommend a different approach (perhaps use an application specific password).
Many thanks
You should be able to obtain this from the Oauth Playground.
Oauth Playground