google-auth

Command line tool to retrieve oauth tokens for programmatic access to google services.

Because only google would make something so unfriendly to users it requires a special tool to retreive API tokens

Installation

npm install -g google-auth

Usage

Obtain Google Client ID & Secret

• Go to https://console.developers.google.com
• If there is not a project there, create a new one
• Click on the projects name
• Navigate to API & Auth / Credentals
• Create new client with these options
• Record the client secret and id
• Go to https://console.developers.google.com/project/86071142858/apiui/consent
  • make sure the email and product name fields are filled in

Running the command line program

$ google-auth --id=<client_id> --secret=<client_secret> [services to auth with]

If you do not pass in the id and secret parameters, the app will look for the environmental variables GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET

Example

For example, to authenticate with google drive and google calendar:

$ export GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=<client_id>
$ export GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=<client_secret>
$ google-auth drive calendar

this will open a web browser for you to confirm your authentication.