Google API: getting Credentials from refresh token with oauth2client.client

Question

I am using googles official oauth2client.client to access the google plus api. I have a refresh token (that does not expire) stored in a database, and need to recreate the

Answer 1

I use: oauth2client.client.GoogleCredentials

    cred = oauth2client.client.GoogleCredentials(access_token,client_id,client_secret,
                                          refresh_token,expires_at,"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",some_user_agent)
    http = cred.authorize(httplib2.Http())
    cred.refresh(http)
    self.gmail_service = discovery.build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=cred)