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Using Google's Python Client Library to Authorise Your Desktop App with OAuth2

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31 pointsJmoir12 comments

Nice post. I've definitely struggled with this before.

I'm always amazed at how difficult it is to use google's APIs. It probably should not require a lengthy post to explain how it works assuming they want people to use it. Yet here we are.

Yeah, I'm not too impressed by the Google API documentation if I'm honest. Using the API via HTTP is quite well documented, but using the api via their python library... Not so much.

What challenges do you encounter? I've not really run into issues working with it (OAuth is complicated, but it's complicated for the right reasons).

If you want to write a Django app that uses Google's OAuth then the following would serve as a good template: https://github.com/mherrmann/ExcludeMyIP.

Is there any way to have an end-user application that doesn't require a oauth certificate the way you created? I'm attempting to write some software now that would benefit from allowing people to keep data in Google Spreadsheets.

If you're going to be accessing user data, you need to be using oath authorisation. There are other ways to handle it but after a lot of research and trial and error, in the end this was the best way I found.

Am I the only one or is there something wrong with scrolling on this site?

What's the problem?

It's different than any other side and somehow slower and a little bit delayed.

Well it has a smooth scrolling effect on it. Does it lag? Is it inconvenient?

Any feedback on anything to do with the blog is welcomed and appreciated.

Yes it's a little bit inconvenient. I have smooth scrolling enabled in my browser and it seems those two don't work together ;)

Ah I see, thanks for telling me!

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