Re: windmill blades turning?
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 07:52:37PM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote: On 15 October 2014 15:09, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:44:54AM +0100, Sue Spence wrote: This message took an hour to arrive, as opposed to 3-4 hours. So some progress has been made. I approve of this tilting at windmills, and would welcome the opportunity to buy Steve appropriate beer* once he considers the job done. Nicholas Clark * or malt, or whatever. Although I hope that it's malt by choice, not by desperation. Single Malt not Malt beer! I wasn't really aware of what malt beer is. Having now looked it up, most definately, malt whiske?y. Although a pint of scotch is always an option, in the right parts of the world. Nicholas Clark
Re: windmill blades turning?
On 17 Oct 2014, at 09:02, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Single Malt not Malt beer! I wasn't really aware of what malt beer is. Having now looked it up, most definately, malt whiske?y. When I lived in Shepherd’s Bush, it was everywhere. I think I’ve only ever seen one person with a bottle, mind. Although a pint of scotch is always an option, in the right parts of the world. I believe lathos described it as a london.pm drinking game called “have a shot every time you have a shot”. James
Re: google spreadsheet API login woes
Thanks Steve and Simon, It looks like the days of running a simple script against Google services authorised by just username and password are long gone. The beauty of my spreadsheet file grabber was that anyone could use it without registering API keys etc and also that it only took half an hour to write! On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 October 2014 16:59, Simon Wistow si...@thegestalt.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:35:18PM +0100, Bob MacCallum said: It's stopped working recently (can't say exactly when) - and I don't know my AuthSub from my OAuth from my elbow. I've tried my $auth = Net::Google::AuthSub-new; my $res = $auth-login($user, $pass); I wrote Net::Google::AuthSub but I haven't used it for years and so it may be very, very out of date. It didn't seem to work when I tried it a few weeks back despite Google's claims of AuthSub being still supported until next year. They probably changed something. It's all very geared to their own API libs not 3rd party ones for unsupported languages like Perl. AuthSub is deprecated in favour of OAuth (which is pretty dreadful as demonstrated by the YAPC::EU Oauth Dance). I successfully accessed Google Calendar last month with a lot of difficulty by doing the following: Google::API::Client via git clone https://github.com/comewalk/google-api-perl-client.git Used https://console.developers.google.com/project (different to the similarly named Google Play one!) Note this does not work and doesn't give any warnings of not working in a Firefox type browser I had to use Chrome. I had to google several errors on stackoverflow (and noticed assorted whines) to get the exact workflow in the dev console correct. APIs Auth 1. Google Calender ON 2. CredCreate new client ID Installed Application 3. Also enter Email Address and minimal details in Consent Screen $ cd google-api-perl-client/eg edit client_secrets.json with your client_id $ cd calendar $ perl -I ../lib/ calendarlist.pl Click on URI generated (I again had problems with Firefox and had to use Chrome in order to copy and paste) copy auth token back to command line (this token is saved in the json and next time you run you aren't prompted with url). I was then able to access Google Calendar. It's sure to time out and you probably have to refresh it. I'd probably avoid Google Services after this experience unless I was being paid to do it. It's aimed at professional phone app devs not hobbyist use. I suspect it changes quite frequently too. S
