I have created a button that allows users to sign in with Google.
After the users choose their google accounts, I can get the following parameters as response from Google.
access tokens
id_token
expires_in
token_type
created
How can I use these parameters to use services provide from Google?
For example, can I create buttons for user to go to the gmail boxes?
If it is not the way, what are the uses of those token?
Using Google's tokens id you can get User's Information like Name Email.
You cant provide direct option to open Gmail. It will prompt user to login
You can refer this doc for more info Gmail scopes
For accessing Google services, you need the access_token. When you are creating the authentication URL, you must specify all scopes - permissions (from this list) you want to use in your application. Then Google will ask the user for consent with delegating those permissions to your application. The access token you get will allow you to perform those actions.
You can go through those Google API scopes and get an idea what you can do and what not. For example you cannot use the GMail GUI, but you can read, send, delete, and manage user's emails, send new emails and so.
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I'm building an app in which I'm trying to allow a user to log in through Google+ (currently using the Google API PHP Client Library) and pull their entire contact list in to decide if they want to send an email to their list from my app. I can easily see how to allow the user to grant access to multiple permissions through different Google APIs through setting scopes.
I'm struggling to see either what scope I should be setting when making a request and/or what API should accomplish pulling a logged in user's contact list along with each contact's email address.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I found the answer, you have to pull contacts with an valid OAuth request through the Google Contacts API. On the documentation page for the Google Contacts API, Google says:
The Google Contacts API allows client applications to view and update a user's contacts. Contacts are stored in the user's Google Account; most Google services have access to the contact list.
You can find the documentation here.
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/
I've implemented Google OAuth 2.0 login on a site that I'm working on. It works fine, except in situations when the user is logged with two or more different accounts on the same browser. It's asking him to choose which one he want's to use. But it's asking the user every time to choose the account. Is there a way to remember this, so the user can choose the account only the first time and later automatically to log him with that account?
You can put hd=domain.com parameter in the request to Google, but that only helps if the two logged accounts are from different domains and it can than log the user in with #domain.com account.
I read somewhere that you can send user_id account as a parameter to Google (I guess that would be the email address), but in this case I don't know the users email address before he logs in.
I think this behavior is the same if you use OpenID.
I'm using Google's PHP OAuth library.
Thanks,
Andrej
Google should have a cookie set that enables OAuth applications to tell what account to currently use.
If you know the email address you want to log in with, you can use the login_hint parameter and they won't see the account chooser. See https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login#sendauthrequest
I've downloaded the PHP client library for Google Adwords API. I need to insert my login details in /src/Google/Api/Ads/AdWords/auth.ini. One of the variable is developerToken.
How can I get it?
Directly from the API...
Your assigned Developer Token will be activated once your application
for API access is approved. Your token will be available through your
AdWords API Center—accessible through the My Account menu for the MCC
account you applied with. You'll be able to access the API by
including it in your request headers when interacting with our system.
It is very important that you keep your Contact Email up to date—we
may send you important information regarding disruptions to service
and urgent changes via this channel.
https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/signingup
I understand this might be old, but since Google updated their API, let me share my experience.
You need to create an MCC account (My Client Center), basically if you already have a Google Adwords account you cannot use it to generate developerToken however, you still can you use same Gmail account to create a new MCC account.
Follow below:
https://adwords.google.com/home/tools/manager-accounts/
Click on Start Now
Probably you are already logged in using your Gmail account, in all cases use your Gmail account in the email address field.
Choose name for your account let's say main-account
Do not click save and continue
Check below picture, you need to click, click here in the message below.
You will then redirect to the main dashboard, where you can click on Tools and then under SETUP tab you will find Adwords API Centre where you will be able to generate developerToken
you have to use the developer token from your live account. The token will work fine even if its status is pending
I'm building a web app for a client where members of general public can create an account. Client would like to be able to use my app to send Facebook messages to those members.
Note that my app is a standard LAMP site and NOT a facebook application, nor is there the desire to create one; delivering messages to members' FB inbox is the only goal.
Is this possible, using the FB API or any other way?
In short the answer is no. Facebook do not give you the ability to do this to prevent spam. You could post to all of your user's feeds however?
What you would need to do is:
Register facebook app to get access to FB API. You don't need to have actual facebook app, just use received API key on your standalone site.
Create authentication process on your site so users would be able to connect with your site through facebook.
Ask users for additional extended permissions during authentication to access their email, as it is not something that could be accessed without user's explicit permission.
That's the bare minimum for this task.
I am building an app on top of Google Reader. Since users have to enter their Google Account data, I'd like to use this data to assign personal settings to each user.
However, if I do so and a user would change his email adress or password(for the whole Google Account), I wouldn't be able to identify him anymore.
Thus, I need to know if there's a Google Account ID or something that I can use to identify users regardless of an email adress or password.
Thanks for your help!
If you use the Google Account API, you can connect the user to your app using OpenID or OAuth. Both methods return an account ID which stays static for that user.
More information: http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/