Google-tokens

Tool for getting Google Cloud API OAuth tokens (refresh token)

Why?

• To simplify getting OAuth tokens
• As a alternative to OAuth Playground
• OAuth2 for Web Server Applications

Getting started

1. Sign-up for a Google Cloud API account.
2. Create an API project with an OAuth client id and add a 'Authorized redirect URI' of http://localhost:3000/callback.
3. Obtain your client_id & client_secret from the credentials JSON file from the console

Steps to generate .gtokens.json

1. git clone https://github.com/bradoyler/google-tokens.git
2. copy .gtokens.example.json to .gtokens.json
3. fill in client_id and client_secret
4. install & run

npm install
npm start

5. follow prompt and copy refresh_token to your '.gtokens.json'

API

const GoogleTokens = require('google-tokens')
const tokens = new GoogleTokens({ client_id, client_secret }) // OAuth credentials 

const scope = [
  'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive',
  'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly'
]

tokens.authPrompt({ scope }) // required to pass API scope
  .then(tokens => console.log('OAuthTokens:', tokens))
  .catch(console.error)

NOTE: you will only get a refresh_token the first-time you authenticate, but you can force to get new tokens by using the 'prompt' option, like so:

tokens.authPrompt({ scope, prompt: 'consent' })
  .then(tokens => console.log('OAuthTokens:', tokens))

TODOs:

• add CLI support
• allow for using shortnames (ie. auth/drive ) in scope
• tests for all options