Error: invalid_request device_id and device_name are required for private IP

Question

I was doing my development with Google Drive API using [localhost:8080]. Suddenly I felt to test it in my local deployment sandbox and it has IP address as [192.168.1.1:8080

Answer 1

Edit: Only relevant when developing locally.

Ok, I'm having the same problem on my Mac. Following steps resolved the issue

• Go to your google development console https://console.developers.google.com/project, choose credentials and change the callback IP to a domain like http://myflask.com:5000/oauth2callback. In my case I am using a Flask application, so the 5000 port is necessary.

• Next add to your private/etc/hosts file a new entry matching the above hostname to your IP, like so:

  # (example IP)
  172.1.1.1 myflask.com
  

• Give Google a minute to update your credentials, and visit your site at http://myflask.com:5000