list google drive files with curl

Question

I\'m trying to get the list of files on Google Drive with curl, but OAuth 2 is getting the best of me.

Here are some of the things I tried:

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Answer 1

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The gist of it, since I know stackoverflow prefers quoting the content to linking:

First, get your client ID in Google Developer Console for OAuth2. This will require to fill in the OAuth consent screen and after testing, you will have to get your domain verified. (Google will lead you in the process...)

In your browser:

https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fanalytics&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&response_type=code&client_id=1234567890.apps.googleusercontent.com

Allow the access, of course, and copy the code which should look like 4/v6xr77ewYqjkslsdUOKwAzu

curl -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d 'code=4/v6xr77ewYqjkslsdUOKwAzu&client_id=1234567890.apps.googleusercontent.com&client_secret=xywzxywzxywzxywzxywz&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&grant_type=authorization_code' https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token

You’ll get a JSON like this one:

{
  "access_token" : "ya29.AHES6Zkjhkjhahskjhskkskjh",
  "token_type" : "Bearer",
  "expires_in" : 3600,
  "refresh_token" : "1/HH9E7k5D0jakjhsd7askdjh7899a8sd989"
}

If you curl:

curl 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/tokeninfo?access_token=ya29.AHES6Zkjhkjhahskjhskkskjh'

you’ll get something like:

{
 "issued_to": "562211803675.apps.googleusercontent.com",
 "audience": "562211803675.apps.googleusercontent.com",
 "scope": "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics",
 "expires_in": 3556
}

Done

curl 'https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management/accounts?access_token=ya29.AHES6Zkjhkjhahskjhskkskjh

Renew the token

You have to use the “refresh_token” received previously

curl -d "client_id=562211803675.apps.googleusercontent.com&client_secret=ZQxoOBGbvMGnZOYUrVIDXrgl&refresh_token=1/HH9E7k5D0jakjhsd7askdjh7899a8sd989&grant_type=refresh_token" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token

and you’ll get a new access_token.