Help with "Set up local environment variables."

[anthonyjclarke]

Apologies in advance, a complete "terminal" noobie here.... but nearly there... diligently followed all steps and now at this one.

1. cp example.env .env - DONE and verified by using "vim .env" and I am editing a file

2. Generate FLASK_SECRET_KEY with python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex())' and add it to .env. - DONE - I had to run "python3 xxx" but generated a long Key that I copied and in the first line of .env I replaced "FLASK_SECRET_KEY=XYZ" with my secret Key overwriting "XYZ" what was there from the "I assume" example.env file

3. Add GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET from the client_id and client_secret values from the client secret file created above.

This is where I am stuck, where do I get GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET from the client secret file... is this the JSON File created in the step before "Go to APIs & Services > Credentials > Create Credentials > OAuth client ID" ? I would appreciate unpacking this step with some more detail.

Really appreciate any help. Thanks

[mtalcott]

Hi @anthonyjclarke,

You should be able to open the client secret file with a text editor and see something like this JSON structure:

{
  "web": {
    "client_id": "asdfjasdljfasdkjf",
    "client_secret": "1912308409123890",
    "redirect_uris": ["https://www.example.com/oauth2callback"],
    "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
    "token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token"
  }
}

In this example, your GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID is asdfjasdljfasdkjf and your GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET is 1912308409123890.

Alternatively, these are also available for me in the Google Cloud Console under APIs & Services > Credentials once you click on an entry in the OAuth 2.0 Client IDs list.

[mtalcott]

I also want to acknowledge this setup is very involved, and prevents most people from using the tool! This setup is what I could scrap together with the limited time I am able to set aside for this project.

In the future I'd like to provide a hosted web app that avoids all this. Unfortunately, it requires a bigger time investment than I'm currently able to make.

[anthonyjclarke]

Thanks. I've taken my time and done very slowly and cautiously. Nearly there.