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EionRobb
URL indicated in youtube setup video doesn't seem to exist (any longer?) in Chrome
Original report by Anonymous.
Hi,
after recently purchasing a new laptop I needed to re-install pidgin and purple-hangouts. However when it came to the step described in your instructional youtube video (i.e. the step where one needs to sign in and then grab the oauth_code from the response to the programmatic_auth request that the browser sends out) I found that there was no programmatic_auth request in the network log. I also checked the others and did not find an oauth_code. (See the screenshot I'm attaching.)
Could you describe an alternate way of getting the oauth_code please?
-Mike
Original comment by Michael Cuffaro (Bitbucket: mcuffaro, GitHub: mcuffaro).
I am the original poster (I forgot to login when I opened this issue). FYI I was able to resolve my own personal situation by simply copying the .purple/ directory from my old laptop to my new one. However it seems like the problem will still be there for people setting this up for the first time.
Original comment by Alexandr Alexeev (Bitbucket: [Alexandr Alexeev](https://bitbucket.org/Alexandr Alexeev), ).
I did not find an oauth_code too. I see the following cookies…
accounts.google.com : GAPS, LSID, LSOLH, OCAK
.google.com : APISID, CGIC, HSID, NID, SAPISID, SID, SIDCC, SNID, SSID
I've managed to get the cookie by using this URL: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/programmatic_auth?hl=en&scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Faccounts%2FOAuthLogin+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fuserinfo.email&client_id=936475272427.apps.googleusercontent.com&access_type=offline&delegated_client_id=183697946088-m3jnlsqshjhh5lbvg05k46q1k4qqtrgn.apps.googleusercontent.com&top_level_cookie=1
@thorgrin May God bless you kind internet traveler!
This has been broken for WAYY to long! I haven't been able to use this software until now. Thank you!
thorgrin's method worked, thank you!!! Why do we have to hack it this way, it's unreliable and the youtube video should have been already replaced with a new one. Is there a technical limitation that doesn't allow the plugin to trigger normal oauth flow like any other application (like thunderbird) does? That way it could get the code itself and avoid the hassle and confusion of new users like me, digging through some old irrelevant video :(
@thorgrin Thanks +1 The video wasn't helping but your link worked first time.
Today my oauth code expired and I had to follow thorgrin's link again to get new OAuth code. I was suprised that after all the time this bug is still not fixed in pidgin :( And it's a pretty basic flow - to log in via hangouts - that will surely discourage users from using pidgin.