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Gmail Get Auth Token
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/* | |
https://medium.com/@andrea_j24/come-trasformare-le-email-in-richieste-http-84c178480d1f | |
npm install google-auth-library readline | |
node gmail_auth.js | |
*/ | |
var googleAuth = require('google-auth-library'); | |
var readline = require('readline'); | |
// See scopes : https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/auth/scopes | |
var SCOPES = ["https://mail.google.com/"]; | |
/** | |
* Create an OAuth2 client with the given credentials | |
* @param {Object} credentials The authorization client credentials. | |
*/ | |
function authorize(credentials) { | |
var clientSecret = "YOUR_clientSecret"; | |
var clientId = "YOUR_clientId"; | |
var redirectUrl = "http://localhost:3000"; | |
var auth = new googleAuth(); | |
var oauth2Client = new auth.OAuth2(clientId, clientSecret, redirectUrl); | |
getNewToken(oauth2Client); | |
} | |
/** | |
* Get new token after prompting for user authorization, and then | |
* execute the given callback with the authorized OAuth2 client. | |
* | |
* @param {google.auth.OAuth2} oauth2Client The OAuth2 client to get token for. | |
*/ | |
function getNewToken(oauth2Client, callback) { | |
var authUrl = oauth2Client.generateAuthUrl({ | |
access_type: 'offline', | |
scope: SCOPES | |
}); | |
console.log('Authorize this app by visiting this url: ', authUrl); | |
var rl = readline.createInterface({ | |
input: process.stdin, | |
output: process.stdout | |
}); | |
rl.question('Enter the code from that page here: ', function(code) { | |
rl.close(); | |
oauth2Client.getToken(code, function(err, token) { | |
if (err) { | |
console.log('Error while trying to retrieve access token', err); | |
return; | |
} | |
console.log("token= " ,token); | |
}); | |
}); | |
} | |
// Start | |
authorize(); |
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