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

You can construct an OAuth2Credentials instance directly like this:

import httplib2
from oauth2client import GOOGLE_REVOKE_URI, GOOGLE_TOKEN_URI, client

CLIENT_ID = ''
CLIENT_SECRET = ''
REFRESH_TOKEN = ''

credentials = client.OAuth2Credentials(
    access_token=None,  # set access_token to None since we use a refresh token
    client_id=CLIENT_ID,
    client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET,
    refresh_token=REFRESH_TOKEN,
    token_expiry=None,
    token_uri=GOOGLE_TOKEN_URI,
    user_agent=None,
    revoke_uri=GOOGLE_REVOKE_URI)

credentials.refresh(httplib2.Http())  # refresh the access token (optional)
print(credentials.to_json())
http = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())  # apply the credentials