Which OAuth Credentials in Google?

[jwulf]

The docs say:

You will also need to set the Google client ID and secret using env variables accordingly. (Login into https://console.developers.google.com/ to create them first)

Can you give some more details on this? On Google there are several types of OAuth credentials (web browser / web server || access your data / access users' data) and a bunch of different parameters (origin URL || redirect URL).

I read in another issue that you need to enable the Google+ API, so I did that; then generated a couple of different credentials for OAuth. They all result in an error.

[jwulf]

When I step through their wizard and say that I'm looking for credentials to allow a web browser || web server access a user's data via the Google+ API, it tells me that I have credentials already for both of those scenarios.

When I use either of those credentials with watchmen, Google gives me a 401 error, with the client key on the screen, like this:

401. That’s an error.

Error: invalid_client

The OAuth client was not found.

Request Details
response_type=code
redirect_uri=http://watcher.magikcraft.io/auth/google/callback
scope=https://www.google.com/m8/feeds https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile
client_id='672769544416-45vu7vkkqtqbpv1p1ompcfjrt9smgmpv.apps.googleusercontent.com'
That’s all we know.

[rinderschwein]

Same problem here, @jwulf have you found a solution?

[DigitalSquid]

Here's a rough guide based on what I did to get it working:

• Go to Google's API Console: https://console.developers.google.com
• Create a new Project if you need to, or select an existing one
• Go to the Dashboard option in the left menu
• Select the Enable API option and enable the Google+ API
• Go to the Credentials option in the left menu
• Hit the Create Credentials button and select the OAuth client ID option
• You should be prompted to configure the Consent Screen - just requires an email address and project name to work
• Then configure the app. I was running it as a web service so picked Web Application
• I'm running it locally for now so under the restrictions I added http://localhost:3000 as the origin URI and http://localhost:3000/auth/google/callback as the redirect URI

That should get you the Client ID and the Client Secret to put in the config files. I also added a Google Analytics ID to the config files, which you can get from a Google Analytics account

[dnx2k]

Couple of thoughts:

1. For me it was necessary to remove all quotes in env file, so it will be just: WATCHMEN_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000 WATCHMEN_WEB_PORT=3000 ... as well as Google keys. Otherwise this quotes remains in auth query and it will fail.

2. There are deprecated options scope: 'https://www.google.com/m8/feeds https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile' it needs to be replaced with scope: 'email profile' in webserver/routes/web-auth-route.js

3. You need to enable Google + API in your console otherwise auth will fail (as 0f 2017)