I am trying to build a simple upload application for personal use. The reason why I am posting is the google documentation and the stack overflow posts on this subject are rather confusing for a person new to google API's. Ive already went through the google cloud setup involving creating a secret key and a client id (client_secret.json)
My problem is that I want to be able to run through the o-auth2 authentication flow to gain access to the API without opening a browser. This is because the script will live on a headless Ubuntu server once complete.
Ive already read some posts about refresh tokens and access tokens in the follow posts
YouTube Data API v3: video upload from server without opening the browser
How to refresh an access token for the youtube-data-api v3
Ive also read some google documentation
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/authentication#OAuth2_Refreshing_a_Token
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/auth/client-side-web-apps
These articles helped me understand whats going on but they are not actionable as it seems like the google documentation is fragmented/out of date.
This is my code that comes from the get started guide. I only had to change 1 function to get it to run.
import os
import google_auth_oauthlib.flow
import googleapiclient.discovery
import googleapiclient.errors
scopes = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly"]
def main():
# Disable OAuthlib's HTTPS verification when running locally.
# *DO NOT* leave this option enabled in production.
os.environ["OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT"] = "1"
api_service_name = "youtube"
api_version = "v3"
client_secrets_file = "client_secret.json"
# Get credentials and create an API client
flow = google_auth_oauthlib.flow.InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
client_secrets_file, scopes)
# Was flow.run_console but that method was deprecated so I found the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75602866/google-oauth-attributeerror-installedappflow-object-has-no-attribute-run-co
credentials = flow.run_local_server(open_browser=False)
youtube = googleapiclient.discovery.build(
api_service_name, api_version, credentials=credentials)
request = youtube.channels().list(
part="snippet,contentDetails,statistics",
mine=True
)
response = request.execute()
print(response)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
The code runs but when I click the link generated in the output I get a redirect error but that's not important to overall issue of being unable to authenticate without a browser.
