Thanks alot mr. Oommen. Gawr now functions with OAuth 2.0. It is not pretty yet, but it will be eventually.
On Friday, January 3, 2014 3:21:48 PM UTC+1, Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi Rasmus, > > You could use the OAuth playground to generate access token, but as you > noticed, the access token expires in an hour. This is good for short demo > purposes, but if you want a long-running process or an unattended cron job, > this approach won't work. Plus, our servers will see your application as > "OAuth Playground", since you are using its clientId to generate access > token. If you want to identify your application as Gawr (and hence get your > own rate limits, settings, etc.) then you should register your own client > id and secret from Google Cloud console and then generate OAuth access / > refresh token using those credentials. > > OAuth2 is a bit more difficult to implement when compared to ClientLogin, > but since it is an open standard, there are lots of libraries that > implement the protocol for you. You could use one of those to do the OAuth2 > flow, and then use the access token to make AdWords API calls. A quick > google search brought up this library: > http://andreareginato.github.io/simple-oauth2/. It seems to support both > the authorization flow and access token refresh flow. > > Cheers, > Anash P. Oommen, > AdWords API Advisor. > > On Thursday, January 2, 2014 10:11:31 PM UTC-5, Rasmus Ladekjær Pedersen > wrote: >> >> Thank you for your interest. I have added the possibility to use a >> --customerId flag to specify a client customer id other than the one in >> config. Good idea. Thanks. I have also corrected a few bugs. >> >> The OAuth 2.0 part is however rather hard on me. Gawr is now using OAuth >> 2.0 in a preliminary way. The users obtain an access token via >> https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground and the program will work >> for an hour. Obviously, the refresh token should be used. >> >> My answer is why are you taking about >> https://cloud.google.com/console#/project, clientId and clientSecret. >> What am I missing? >> >> I would be glad to hear anything from your or your colleague. >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 3:01:12 PM UTC+1, Anash P. Oommen (AdWords >> API Team) wrote: >>> >>> Hi Rasmus, >>> >>> That's a pretty useful script. I've heard a few users asking for one, >>> but it's the first time I'm seeing a user write one and contribute to the >>> community. Thanks a lot! One of my colleagues was experimenting with >>> AdWords API on Node.js, I'll ask him to take a look and reach out to you. >>> >>> I have a couple of suggestions: >>> >>> >>> - It is useful to have a --customerId flag that reads from config if >>> one is not provided on the command line. That way, one could switch >>> customer ids on command line w/o changing the config. >>> - You should try to use OAuth2 as authentication mechanism, since >>> ClientLogin protocol is deprecated and will go away in the next 6 >>> months. >>> The rough steps to generate one using OAuth 2.0 Playground would be as >>> follows (I apologize, I don't have a handy guide to point you to in our >>> documentation site): >>> - Visit Google Cloud Console. >>> https://cloud.google.com/console#/project >>> - Create a new project, then register a *web* application. >>> Provide https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground a callback >>> url. This will give you an OAuth2 *clientId *and *clientSecret*. >>> - Visit https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/. Click the >>> OAuth2.0 configuration button on the top right corner, and check "Use >>> your >>> own OAuth credentials". Add the OAuth2 clientId and clientSecret from >>> the >>> Google cloud console on this page, and Save. >>> - Do the OAuth2 flow on the main application, for scope = >>> *https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords >>> <https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords>. *At the end of the >>> flow, the page will print out a refresh token and an access token. >>> - In your application, you need to send the authorization header >>> as *Authorization: Bearer access_token* instead of Authorization >>> GoogleLogin... >>> - Access tokens will expire in an hour, but you could use the >>> refresh token to get a new access token. The raw http message for the >>> same >>> is available here: >>> https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2WebServer#refresh >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Anash P. Oommen, >>> AdWords API Advisor. >>> >>> On Monday, December 16, 2013 6:45:06 PM UTC-5, Rasmus Ladekjær Pedersen >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I wrote this little node.js script to retrieve report from Google >>>> AdWords. When I myself was new to the API I would really have liked a >>>> simple script like that, and that is why I later wrote it and now post it >>>> here. >>>> >>>> https://github.com/ladekjaer/node-gawr >>>> >>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. 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