Google-API-Token-Generator

Generates access_tokens for Google API, also generates refresh_token which can be used for refreshing access_tokens on server side later w/o OAuth2 prompt.

• Create OAuth2 credentials(type:Other): https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials

• Download json file and rename to client_secret.json and place in ./ root app dir.

• Run node app.js

• Go to URL provided, authorize with your Google account using OAuth2 and copy result code

• Paste in terminal and hit enter

• Copy generated entire token JSON file

• You can use this token on server side w/o any more user interaction

• Access_token will expire in 1 hour (as opposed to 5 minutes for online tokens), which is still not acceptable because we want true permanent/long lived token. We can refresh access_token with just 1 line of code(As long as we have refresh_token): https://github.com/google/google-api-nodejs-client/#manually-refreshing-access-token