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 could store the entire credentials rather than only the refresh token:

json = credentials.to_json()
credentials = Credentials.new_from_json(json)

Look at the Storage object which does it this way.