I'm trying to use the slides rest APIs to retrieve a presentation. I've tried to read my own simple presentation as well as the one in the samples. Right now I'm just trying to enter the following request.
https://slides.googleapis.com/v1/presentations/1EAYk18WDjIG-zp_0vLm3CsfQh_i8eXc67Jo2O9C6Vuc?fields=slides.objectId&key=*********
It doesn't matter if I pass my API key in or not, I consistently get the following issue
"code": 401,
"message": "Request is missing required authentication credential. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.",
I've done similar calls with the sheets API with no issues.
Any help explaining why my key is being ignored is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I will presume that your authentication access token has not expired. If it has, then you will need to refresh it using your refresh token.
If you do not have a refresh token, then you will have to go through the whole process of getting a new access token, and refresh token through OAuth2 authentication chain process.
Once all that is done, then you can make your slide download request.
I believe that your access token has expired, that is why you are getting the error message.
There are two main ways to authorize requests in Slides API : using API Keys or oAuth 2.0. Note that if you use an API Key the presentation must be public as explained in the documentation. If the presentation is not made public then you will not be able to use the API Key and instead you will need to use an oAuth 2.0 token.
Depending on your case scenario consider if you want to make your presentation public (in which case you can use API Keys) or not (in which case you will need to use oAuth 2.0).
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I want to integrate with Miscrosoft Outlook. I am able to login with MSAL.js and get an access token, but I am not able to get a refresh token. Is there a way to do it?
I'll assume that since you're using the MSAL.js (https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-js) that you're using implicit flow for authentication and authorization.
Implicit flow doesn't support refresh tokens, but you can request a new token silently. This is done similarly to how you request the token (id or access) in the first place. Unfortunately, I haven't found that MSAL.js does this transparently and I've needed to detect expired tokens and request the new tokens in my code. You can read more about refreshing tokens here.
Alternatively, if what you're implementing allows you to use one of the other MSAL libraries (for example, the .Net one) then you can use one of the other OAuth flows that explicitly support refresh tokens.
I couldn't find any answer in the MSAL.js documentation, however this source code comment suggests you can renew a token manually by passing only the clientId as your scope to acquireTokenSilent.
To renew idToken, please pass clientId as the only scope in the Authentication Parameters
I use msal v1.4.0
I remove 2 keys in storage (see picture) then call acquireTokenSilent again to get new access token.
Code to remove those 2 keys:
const keys = Object.keys(sessionStorage).filter(x => x.indexOf('authority') > 0)
keys.forEach(x => sessionStorage.removeItem(x))
I am working on Instagram api. I am getting problem with getting likes and comments of a public post in Instagram as it requires access token .
As we can see from the Documentation is:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/{media-id}/likes?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
I could use a third party app to generate Instagram access token and save it to my database but the problem is access token can expire any time or once we change the password so I needed a life long token like as Facebook and twitter provides APP access token or Bearer Token to post of get on behalf of app which could be generated using APP Secret and Client Token.
Or Please let me know if there's any ways to get Instagram public post likes and comments using Id.
Thanks in Advance.
There are no life long tokens by design. You'll have to implement logic to refresh a token when it expires. There is no way around this, you have to use an access token and you have to deal with the fact that tokens expire. It's on you, as the developer, to implement logic. From the documentation:
Access tokens may expire at any time in the future.
The solution you're looking for does not exist. It's so easy to implement a refresh, just look for an error or type OAuthAccessTokenException then rerun your auth flow.
I have a general quation about the access token for Facebook API Graph.
I'm doing some testing with the API Graph explorer. I want to display some public facebook events on my website. https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=party&type=event
For the testing I created a access token and it's working.
Now my question: Can I use this token for my website or has it to be renewed all x-days? So when only searching for public events this token is good?
Thanks for your help.
Ben
You should be able to use an App Access Token, it is valid forever. It´s just a combination of App ID and App Secret, including a pipe sign: App-ID|App-Secret
Careful though, don´t use that token on the client.
More information:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens
http://www.devils-heaven.com/facebook-access-tokens/
Edit: I just tested it with an App Token, it seems that you do need a User Token after all. You can use an Extended User Token, it is valid for 60 days.
So I am updating an older desktop app (written in VB, .net 4.0) with facebook integration and followed the guide found here, and have been able to successfully get a token (by parsing the uri of the embedded webview if it contains "token="). Now my problem is if I try to login with a facebook account that has already approved the app in a prior session, the webview just gets redirected to https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html without any token information.
Do I HAVE to log all of the tokens I generate manually (ie on successful token generation, I can call their profile info, use their FB ID as key and save the token)? Even if I do, since the email and password is input directly into the facebook login window, how do I check if the user already has a token?
Thanks in advance
The access token can change any time, you need to get it everytime. After getting the token, I immediately get the user information https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=??? and use that ID to find their database information.
I couldn't quickly find facebook information but on google's oauth information it says "The access token is also associated with a limited scope that define the kind of data the your client application has access to (for example "Manage your tasks"). An important goal for OAuth 2.0 is to provide secure and convenient access to the protected data, while minimizing the potential impact if an access token is stolen."
https://code.google.com/p/google-api-php-client/wiki/OAuth2
Ok so I finally figured it out myself. My mistake was apparently requesting the access_token directly (ie https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?response_type=token...) to try and save time.
I fixed it by making a request for a 'code' instead (ie https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?response_type=code), which I then use to make a second request to retrieve an access token as documented here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/login-flow-for-web-no-jssdk/, "Exchanging code for an access token" section a bit lower on the page.
Hope this helps someone in the future, this was very frustrating on my part.
Regards,
Prince
I'm trying to get access to the Google's todo feed with this url:
https://www.google.com/calendar/tdl?secid=<SECID>&tdl={%22action_list%22%3A[{%22action_type%22%3A%22get_all%22%2C%22action_id%22%3A%221%22%2C%22list_id%22%3A%2215052708471047222911%3A0%3A0%22%2C%22get_deleted%22%3Afalse}]%2C%22client_version%22%3A-1}
If I open this in my browser with a correct secid, it shows me right what I want.
Now, the question is: how do I get secid programmatically (specifically, in a java program)? I have access to the authToken (from CalendarService), but I have no clue how to use it to authorize my access to the URL above.
I tried to use the url http://google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin, but I didn't find any examples.
Any help, please?
From what I read secid is a session ID obtained from browser's cookies. Whereas your case uses Java which implies a server app. If that is the case, you want to drop the idea of using secid entirely.
Instead, you want to check out Google's OAuth2 documentation. If you are using Java, most likely you would be interested in the web-server OAuth flow. Pay special attention to the sequence diagrams.
The key steps include:
1) Obtain an authorization code from Google OAuth with the user's consent. For that, you redirect the user to Google with the appropriate scope. Check the list of calendar scopes for your case. Once the user consents, Google redirects back to you with an authorization code.
2) Call Google OAuth with the authorization code and your app's credentials to exchange for an access token.
3) Call Google's Calendar API using the access token.
And if you use Google's Java client as suggested by #ChaosPredictor, chances are some of the steps are already wrapped into the Java client (and your code will be much simpler).