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thenewbie
thenewbie

Reputation: 805

How to authenticate once in google drive api

I have this problem about google drive. This is my application enter image description here

As you can see here. I want to browse and upload the file to google drive. But every time I upload a file i need to allow and copy the authentication to my application.. like here

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Is it possible to allow access once? Is there any other way to fix this? Can i automatically allow access to the authentication code within my application so that i may not use the browser??

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2201

Answers (3)

Ali Afshar
Ali Afshar

Reputation: 41663

You need to request is "offline" access. This will give you a refresh token that you can use to get a fresh access token forever, or until the user revokes it.

See https://developers.google.com/drive/credentials for a .NET example.

Upvotes: 4

prthrokz
prthrokz

Reputation: 1150

Please have a look at Authorizing with stored credentials within Authorization for Google Drive. Basically you can access the account as long as the stored access_token does not expire.

Upvotes: 2

user1936704
user1936704

Reputation:

if you are running server app how about using OAuth2? You won't need to use users console.

GoogleCredentials credentials = new GoogleCredential.Builder()
     .setTransport(HTTP_TRANSPORT)
     .setJsonFactory(JSON_FACTORY)
     .setServiceAccountId("[[SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL]]")
     .setServiceAccountScopes(DriveScopes.DRIVE, DriveScopes.DRIVE_FILE,
         "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email",
         "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile")
     .setServiceAccountPrivateKeyFromP12File(Auth.keyFile)
     .setServiceAccountUser("[[impersonateduser@domain]]")
     .build();
credentials.refreshToken();

and I've found this blog about OAuth2:

http://blog.databigbang.com/automated-browserless-oauth-authentication-for-twitter/

Upvotes: 4

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