I would like to ask you a question about google calendar. I have connected public google calendar from one account. If I'm logged as same user in browser everything is OK, but I would like to do that same for users who will be listing in event in my application. This time it's working only like someone has to logged with credentials from account where is the calendar but I would like to do that public for users (without authorization).
Thanks a lot for any answer,
Alex
It sounds like you are looking for a Google API Service Account. This will allow your application to use the Google Calendar API without requiring login of any sort on the front-end (no OAuth or other user-required auth).
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we are provide saas plugin to our customers, we need to get events for each customer's website without creating seperate GTM container and GA property , All the process will takes place in background.
There should be no login requried ,insted we will send the username and password to Google Aalytics through code(JavaScript).
so we need to use google analytics Api without google sign in
is there a way to do this
we are provide saas plugin to our customers, we need to get events for each customer's website
If you want to connect to the analytics accounts for your customers websites they you need to be authorized to access their private data.
no login requried ,insted we will send the username and password to Google Aalytics through code(JavaScript).
You can not login to anyones google account using login and password that was called client login and google disabled that in 2015. You will need to use Oauth2 request consent and gain authorization to access their private data.
so we need to use google analytics Api without google sign in
Sign in is authentication, the Google analytics api operations on authorization. The user needs to consent and grate you authorization to access their data.
is there a way to do this
No you can not access private user data without the owner of that data authorizing your access to that data.
I've been looking into Google Calendar API as a way to manage calendar/event information for my application. It looks like Google Calendar API is setup to connect to a Google user's account. After you have access to the user's account you can add/update/manipulate calendar and event information. I want this same functionality but on a "user account" that is virtual.. not owned by a real user but an account created specific to my application to use. Is this possible?
The docs mention Google will show a consent page to the user to integrate with the users calendar, how would I go about coding the authentication for my calendar if I (the application) owns the account and calendar?
You could use a service account, which will belong to a project in your dev console, and you can give it credentials to access its own calendar.
See Using OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs
I want to be able create calendar events in my Action that runs through Google Assistant.
Right now I was able to modify this Quickstart guide (https://developers.google.com/calendar/quickstart/nodejs) and use it in my current Dialogflow fulfillment. However, it's a little tedious to have the user have to copy and paste the authentication code after allowing Google Calendar access. Are there any better ways to do this that doesn't require the copy-paste flow? Thanks in advance!
Use Account linking with Google Sign-In
https://developers.google.com/actions/identity/google-sign-in
Then send a card to the user device with a link to authorise Google Calendar access. Store the authentication code securely against the user. Use the authentication code to make requests.
Broadly speaking, the approach you can take is to use Google Sign-In, as outlined in this SO answer: Google Home Authorization Code and Authentication with Google Account.
With this scheme, you use a website to get the user to authorize your use of the Calendar API scope, and you store the auth token against their UserID. Then you use Google Sign-In with the Assistant to get that ID. This works well if they go to your web page first, but not as well if they go to the Assistant first.
You can also setup an OAuth server that lets users sign-in using Google Sign-In on a web page (or use something like Auth0 and, as part of that sign-in, get authorization for the Calendar scope. Then use OAuth Account Linking in the Google Assistant to get an auth token which you can use to get the user's ID. You can then use this ID to lookup the authorization token.
I have an app that is protected by google-oauth (3-legged OAuth) at the nginx-level (using https://github.com/cloudflare/nginx-google-oauth). As you may know, it requires the user to be logged in or manually login to a google account using the browser.
I'd like to access this same protected app through the CLI/programatically. It's true that nginx-google-oauth provides some means that make it easy to do that: the _token_curl endpoint prints outs the headers ready to be used with curl. The problem though is that that token has an expiration date and to get it I need to be logged in or login manually to my google account.
I'm wondering if I could use a Google Service Account (2-legged OAuth) to access the google-oauth-protected app? I've searched around in the documentation (https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2ServiceAccount) and from what I understood, it's only meant to access Google APIs.
Could someone shed some light on the subject? Thanks!
Just for anyone else finding this, the question was answered on GitHub and it is not supported by nginx-google-oauth:
https://github.com/cloudflare/nginx-google-oauth/issues/21
I'm using oauth to authenticate in google calendar, but i'm trying to send user and password to avoid open the authentication popup.
I'ts like automatic authentication.
Is it possible?
Thanks.
Since you want your application to always create events in a single calendar that is under your control, here is how I would do it:
Create a service account in Google Cloud Console - recent instructions on how to do so can be found here: google oauth2 how to get private key for service account
Share your calendar with that service account: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en
Write your code to use the service account credentials (private key downloaded in step 1).
I didn't post any sample code, as I'm not sure what language you are using. The following has some discussion of this use-case in PHP: Access Google calendar events from with service account: { "error" : "access_denied" }. No google apps