Not receiving Google OAuth refresh token

Question

I want to get the access token from Google. The Google API says that to get the access token, send the code and other parameters to token generating page, and the response

Answer 1

1. How to get 'refresh_token' ?

Solution: access_type='offline' option should be used when generating authURL. source : Using OAuth 2.0 for Web Server Applications

2. But even with 'access_type=offline', I am not getting the 'refresh_token' ?

Solution: Please note that you will get it only on the first request, so if you are storing it somewhere and there is a provision to overwrite this in your code when getting new access_token after previous expires, then make sure not to overwrite this value.

From Google Auth Doc : (this value = access_type)

This value instructs the Google authorization server to return a refresh token and an access token the first time that your application exchanges an authorization code for tokens.

If you need 'refresh_token' again, then you need to remove access for your app as by following the steps written in Rich Sutton's answer.