How do I authorize a gdata client without using the gdata oauth2 workflow?

Question

I already have an access_token and refresh_token, but I can\'t figure out a way to create an authorized gdata client without going through the entire token generation workfl

Answer 1

Try this:

import httplib2
from oauth2client.client import OAuth2Credentials

credentials = OAuth2Credentials('access_token', client_id, client_secret, 'refresh_token', 'token_expiry','token_uri','user_agent')
# the client_id and client_secret are the ones that you receive which registering the App 
# and the token_uri is the Redirect url you register with Google for handling the oauth redirection
# the token_expiry and the user_agent is the one that you receive when exchange the code for access_token
http = httplib2.Http()
http = credentials.authorize(http)
service = build('analytics', 'v3', http=http) # this will give you the service object which you can use for firing API calls