This is my team's first foray into implementing functionality with Google Cloud and GSuite. After searching issues and the community I have not yet found what seems to be the proper path forward, or at least have not managed to get the desired functionality.
Background
We have a device/display that shows calendar and event information for a given/specific GSuite Room resource.
As part of displaying information regarding a specific event, we want to display attendee/invitee names.
Implementation
We are successfully calling the Calendar API using a service account. But, when the event information comes back, the attendee information only includes the attendee e-mail address.
The implementation is using the .NET Client libraries for Google.
We found a post directing that we then need to make follow up calls to get more attendee information to the People API.
When querying the People API utilizing the same service account we receive the error Must be a G Suite domain user.
{
"type": "https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.6.1",
"title": "An error occured while processing your request.",
"status": 500,
"detail": "Google.Apis.Requests.RequestError\nMust be a G Suite domain user. [400]\nErrors [\n\tMessage[Must be a G Suite domain user.] Location[ - ] Reason[failedPrecondition] Domain[global]\n]\n",
"traceId": "|6007b977-42e9ca34c40a6cb0."
}
Below is the current hacked together code simply trying to make a successful query against the People Service API
public async Task<IList<Person>> GetAttendees(string tenant, string spaceEmail)
{
var serviceAccount = _redisCache.GoogleTenantCredentials.StringGet(tenant).ToString();
var svcDto = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ServiceAccountDto>(serviceAccount);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(serviceAccount))
{
var credential = new ServiceAccountCredential(
new ServiceAccountCredential.Initializer(svcDto.ClientEmail)
{
Scopes = new[] { PeopleServiceService.Scope.DirectoryReadonly }
}.FromPrivateKey(svcDto.PrivateKey));
var svc = new PeopleServiceService(new BaseClientService.Initializer { HttpClientInitializer = credential });
var request = svc.People.ListDirectoryPeople();
request.ReadMask = "names,emailAddresses";
request.Sources = PeopleResource.ListDirectoryPeopleRequest.SourcesEnum
.DIRECTORYSOURCETYPEDOMAINPROFILE;
var result = await request.ExecuteAsync();
return result.People;
}
return null;
}
Researching the error, we found references to allowing a service account domain-wide delegation. Attempting to follow the documentation we have the setup below.
We spent some time with Google Support today and they directed us to Stack Overflow with the tag below.
Not sure where we are going wrong. Since this is a test/sandbox Google environment, one thing that has been our minds is if the GSuite domain is properly linked to the Cloud side, but we have been novices in attempting to verify that is correct as well.
You need to set up domain wide delegation to the service account this is the best documentation i am aware of. Perform G Suite Domain-Wide Delegation of Authority
Beyond that make sure you have delegated to a user.
var gsuiteUser = "user#YourDomain.com";
var credential = new ServiceAccountCredential(
new ServiceAccountCredential.Initializer(svcDto.ClientEmail)
{
User = gsuiteUser,
Scopes = new[] { PeopleServiceService.Scope.DirectoryReadonly }
}.FromPrivateKey(svcDto.PrivateKey));
To read from the people api you need a person whos data you are reading or you are just going to be reading the service accounts data of which it doesnt have any.
Background
I am wanting to write a small, personal web app in .NET Core 1.1 to interact with YouTube and make some things easier for me to do and I am following the tutorials/samples in Google's YouTube documentation. Sounds simple enough, right? ;)
Authenticating with Google's APIs seems impossible! I have done the following:
Created an account in the Google Developer Console
Created a new project in the Google Developer Console
Created a Web Application OAuth Client ID and added my Web App debug URI to the list of approved redirect URIs
Saved the json file provided after generating the OAuth Client ID to my system
In my application, my debug server url is set (and when my application launches in debug, it's using the url I set which is http://127.0.0.1:60077).
However, when I attempt to authenticate with Google's APIs, I recieve the following error:
That’s an error.
Error: redirect_uri_mismatch
The redirect URI in the request, http://127.0.0.1:63354/authorize/,
does not match the ones authorized for the OAuth client.
Problem
So now, for the problem. The only thing I can find when searching for a solution for this is people that say
just put the redirect URI in your approved redirect URIs
Unfortunately, the issue is that every single time my code attempts to authenticate with Google's APIs, the redirect URI it is using changes (the port changes even though I set a static port in the project's properties). I cannot seem to find a way to get it to use a static port. Any help or information would be awesome!
NOTE: Please don't say things like "why don't you just do it this other way that doesn't answer your question at all".
The code
client_id.json
{
"web": {
"client_id": "[MY_CLIENT_ID]",
"project_id": "[MY_PROJECT_ID]",
"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
"auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
"client_secret": "[MY_CLIENT_SECRET]",
"redirect_uris": [
"http://127.0.0.1:60077/authorize/"
]
}
}
Method That Is Attempting to Use API
public async Task<IActionResult> Test()
{
string ClientIdPath = #"C:\Path\To\My\client_id.json";
UserCredential credential;
using (var stream = new FileStream(ClientIdPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
credential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets,
new[] { YouTubeService.Scope.YoutubeReadonly },
"user",
CancellationToken.None,
new FileDataStore(this.GetType().ToString())
);
}
var youtubeService = new YouTubeService(new BaseClientService.Initializer()
{
HttpClientInitializer = credential,
ApplicationName = this.GetType().ToString()
});
var channelsListRequest = youtubeService.Channels.List("contentDetails");
channelsListRequest.Mine = true;
// Retrieve the contentDetails part of the channel resource for the authenticated user's channel.
var channelsListResponse = await channelsListRequest.ExecuteAsync();
return Ok(channelsListResponse);
}
Project Properties
The Original Answer works, but it is NOT the best way to do this for an ASP.NET Web Application. See the update below for a better way to handle the flow for an ASP.NET Web Application.
Original Answer
So, I figured this out. The issue is that Google thinks of a web app as a JavaScript based web application and NOT a web app with server side processing. Thus, you CANNOT create a Web Application OAuth Client ID in the Google Developer Console for a server based web application.
The solution is to select the type Other when creating an OAuth Client ID in the Google Developer Console. This will have Google treat it as an installed application and NOT a JavaScript application, thus not requiring a redirect URI to handle the callback.
It's somewhat confusing as Google's documentation for .NET tells you to create a Web App OAuth Client ID.
Feb 16, 2018 Updated Better Answer:
I wanted to provide an update to this answer. Though, what I said above works, this is NOT the best way to implement the OAuth workflow for a ASP.NET solution. There is a better way which actually uses a proper OAuth 2.0 flow. Google's documentation is terrible in regards to this (especially for .NET), so I'll provide a simple implementation example here. The sample is using ASP.NET core, but it's easily adapted to the full .NET framework :)
Note: Google does have a Google.Apis.Auth.MVC package to help simplifiy this OAuth 2.0 flow, but unfortunately it's coupled to a specific MVC implementation and does not work for ASP.NET Core or Web API. So, I wouldn't use it. The example I'll be giving will work for ALL ASP.NET applications. This same code flow can be used for any of the Google APIs you've enabled as it's dependent on the scopes you are requesting.
Also, I am assuming you have your application set up in your Google Developer dashboard. That is to say that you have created an application, enabled the necessary YouTube APIs, created a Web Application Client, and set your allowed redirect urls properly.
The flow will work like this:
The user clicks a button (e.g. Add YouTube)
The View calls a method on the Controller to obtain an Authorization URL
On the controller method, we ask Google to give us an Authorization URL based on our client credentials (the ones created in the Google Developer Dashboard) and provide Google with a Redirect URL for our application (this Redirect URL must be in your list of accepted Redirect URLs for your Google Application)
Google gives us back an Authorization URL
We redirect the user to that Authorization URL
User grants our application access
Google gives our application back a special access code using the Redirect URL we provided Google on the request
We use that access code to get the Oauth tokens for the user
We save the Oauth tokens for the user
You need the following NuGet Packages
Google.Apis
Google.Apis.Auth
Google.Apis.Core
Google.apis.YouTube.v3
The Model
public class ExampleModel
{
public bool UserHasYoutubeToken { get; set; }
}
The Controller
public class ExampleController : Controller
{
// I'm assuming you have some sort of service that can read users from and update users to your database
private IUserService userService;
public ExampleController(IUserService userService)
{
this.userService = userService;
}
public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
{
var userId = // Get your user's ID however you get it
// I'm assuming you have some way of knowing if a user has an access token for YouTube or not
var userHasToken = this.userService.UserHasYoutubeToken(userId);
var model = new ExampleModel { UserHasYoutubeToken = userHasToken }
return View(model);
}
// This is a method we'll use to obtain the authorization code flow
private AuthorizationCodeFlow GetGoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow(params string[] scopes)
{
var clientIdPath = #"C:\Path\To\My\client_id.json";
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(clientIdPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
var clientSecrets = GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets;
var initializer = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Initializer { ClientSecrets = clientSecrets, Scopes = scopes };
var googleAuthorizationCodeFlow = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow(initializer);
return googleAuthorizationCodeFlow;
}
}
// This is a route that your View will call (we'll call it using JQuery)
[HttpPost]
public async Task<string> GetAuthorizationUrl()
{
// First, we need to build a redirect url that Google will use to redirect back to the application after the user grants access
var protocol = Request.IsHttps ? "https" : "http";
var redirectUrl = $"{protocol}://{Request.Host}/{Url.Action(nameof(this.GetYoutubeAuthenticationToken)).TrimStart('/')}";
// Next, let's define the scopes we'll be accessing. We are requesting YouTubeForceSsl so we can manage a user's YouTube account.
var scopes = new[] { YouTubeService.Scope.YoutubeForceSsl };
// Now, let's grab the AuthorizationCodeFlow that will generate a unique authorization URL to redirect our user to
var googleAuthorizationCodeFlow = this.GetGoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow(scopes);
var codeRequestUrl = googleAuthorizationCodeFlow.CreateAuthorizationCodeRequest(redirectUrl);
codeRequestUrl.ResponseType = "code";
// Build the url
var authorizationUrl = codeRequestUrl.Build();
// Give it back to our caller for the redirect
return authorizationUrl;
}
public async Task<IActionResult> GetYoutubeAuthenticationToken([FromQuery] string code)
{
if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(code))
{
/*
This means the user canceled and did not grant us access. In this case, there will be a query parameter
on the request URL called 'error' that will have the error message. You can handle this case however.
Here, we'll just not do anything, but you should write code to handle this case however your application
needs to.
*/
}
// The userId is the ID of the user as it relates to YOUR application (NOT their Youtube Id).
// This is the User ID that you assigned them whenever they signed up or however you uniquely identify people using your application
var userId = // Get your user's ID however you do (whether it's on a claim or you have it stored in session or somewhere else)
// We need to build the same redirect url again. Google uses this for validaiton I think...? Not sure what it's used for
// at this stage, I just know we need it :)
var protocol = Request.IsHttps ? "https" : "http";
var redirectUrl = $"{protocol}://{Request.Host}/{Url.Action(nameof(this.GetYoutubeAuthenticationToken)).TrimStart('/')}";
// Now, let's ask Youtube for our OAuth token that will let us do awesome things for the user
var scopes = new[] { YouTubeService.Scope.YoutubeForceSsl };
var googleAuthorizationCodeFlow = this.GetYoutubeAuthorizationCodeFlow(scopes);
var token = await googleAuthorizationCodeFlow.ExchangeCodeForTokenAsync(userId, code, redirectUrl, CancellationToken.None);
// Now, you need to store this token in rlation to your user. So, however you save your user data, just make sure you
// save the token for your user. This is the token you'll use to build up the UserCredentials needed to act on behalf
// of the user.
var tokenJson = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(token);
await this.userService.SaveUserToken(userId, tokenJson);
// Now that we've got access to the user's YouTube account, let's get back
// to our application :)
return RedirectToAction(nameof(this.Index));
}
}
The View
#using YourApplication.Controllers
#model YourApplication.Models.ExampleModel
<div>
#if(Model.UserHasYoutubeToken)
{
<p>YAY! We have access to your YouTube account!</p>
}
else
{
<button id="addYoutube">Add YouTube</button>
}
</div>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
var addYoutubeUrl = '#Url.Action(nameof(ExampleController.GetAuthorizationUrl))';
// When the user clicks the 'Add YouTube' button, we'll call the server
// to get the Authorization URL Google built for us, then redirect the
// user to it.
$('#addYoutube').click(function () {
$.post(addYoutubeUrl, function (result) {
if (result) {
window.location.href = result;
}
});
});
});
</script>
As referred here, you need to specify a fix port for the ASP.NET development server like How to fix a port number in asp.NET development server and add this url with the fix port to the allowed urls. Also as stated in this thread, when your browser redirects the user to Google's oAuth page, you should be passing as a parameter the redirect URI you want Google's server to return to with the token response.
I noticed that there is easy non-programmatic way around.
If you have typical monotlith application built in typical MS convention(so not compatible with 12factor and typical DDD) there is an option to tell your Proxy WWW server to rewrite all requests from HTTP to HTTPS so even if you have set up Web App on http://localhost:5000 and then added in Google API url like: http://your.domain.net/sigin-google, it will work perfectly and it is not that bas because it is much safer to set up main WWW to rewrite all to HTTPS.
It is not very good practice I guess however it makes sense and does the job.
I've struggled with this issue for hours in a .net Core application. What finally fixed it for me was, in the Google developers console, to create and use a credential for "Desktop app" instead of a "Web application".
Yeah!! Using credentials of desktop app instead of web app worked for me fine. It took me more than 2 days to figure out this problem. The main problem is that google auth library dose not adding or supporting http://localhost:8000 as redirect uri for web app creds but credentials of desktop app fixed that issue. Cause its supporting http://___ connection instead of https: connection for redirect uri
I'm trying to use Yahoo's developer APIs in Xamarin Studio's Xamarin Auth component. I created my app in with Yahoo's Developer tools, set my permissions to read everything, but can't get authorization. I get the following error.
Oops. Yahoo is unable to process your request. We recommend that you contact the owner of the application or web site to resolve this issue. [95022]
Below is my code
string clientId = "<application id from developer.apps.yahoo.com>";
string scope = "";
Uri authorizeUrl = new Uri("https://api.login.yahoo.com/oauth2/request_auth");
Uri redirectUrl = new Uri("http://www.website.com");
var auth = new OAuth2Authenticator(clientId, scope, authorizeUrl, redirectUrl);
auth.Completed += (sender, eventArgs) => {
Console.WriteLine("Completed!");
Console.WriteLine("eventArgs.IsAuthenticated = " + eventArgs.IsAuthenticated);
DismissViewController (true, null);
if (eventArgs.IsAuthenticated) {
// Use eventArgs.Account to do wonderful things
}
};
PresentViewController(auth.GetUI(), true, null);
Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong here?
-------------- Update --------------
I wasn't able to get OAuth2 in Xamarin.Auth working with Yahoo, but I did get OAuth1 functional. I ended up not even using that component and instead using another implementation of OAuth that was documented in the Yahoo Developer Documentation with OAuth and BOSS found here
Using OAuth with BOSS API
Maybe I am simply not getting "it", with "it" being the overall setup needed to make this work.
I have a website that scrapes other sites for sporting events. I want to automatically create Google Calendar events from the results, so I want to give my Web Application Read/Write access on a Calendar in my GMail account.
I have been trying to wrap my head around this for a week now, but I can't get it to work and it is crushing my self-esteem as a developer.
The way I "understand" it is that I need a Google API v3 Service Account, because I don't need an API key for a particular user. Or do I need a Simple API key (instead of oAuth)?
Anyways, I went with the Service Account.
In my HomeController I am trying to GET a Calendar so I know it all works.
public void Calendar()
{
string serviceAccountEmail = "...#developer.gserviceaccount.com";
var certificate = new X509Certificate2(
Server.MapPath("~") + #"\App_Data\key.p12",
"notasecret",
X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable);
ServiceAccountCredential credential =
new ServiceAccountCredential(
new ServiceAccountCredential.Initializer(serviceAccountEmail)
{
Scopes = new[]
{
CalendarService.Scope.Calendar
},
User = "MY-GMAIL-EMAIL" // Is this correct?
}
.FromCertificate(certificate));
BaseClientService.Initializer initializer = new BaseClientService.Initializer();
initializer.HttpClientInitializer = credential;
initializer.ApplicationName = "CALENDAR NAME"; // Correct?
var service = new CalendarService(initializer);
var list = service.CalendarList.List().Execute().Items; // Exception :-(
}
The error I am getting:
An exception of type 'Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2.Responses.TokenResponseException' occurred in Google.Apis.dll but was not handled in user code
Additional information: Error:"unauthorized_client", Description:"Unauthorized client or scope in request.", Uri:""
So I tried a bunch of things in Google Calendar, like making it public, adding the service account email as a READ/WRITE user.
What do I need to do to authorize my Web Application so it can create events on my behalf?
I have done this with the service account in a similar post. I changed a bit of my code and got it working to list my calendars by switching a few things around. I can create events as well. I didn't add a user as you have done in the initializer, and under application name, it is the name of the application in the dev console. Make sure you name your application. Make sure your service account is shared with your account.
I slightly changed the list part of your code to this in mine and got back the my list of calendars.
var list = service.CalendarList.List();
var listex = list.Execute();
Check out my example at Google API Calender v3 Event Insert via Service Account using Asp.Net MVC
Trying to authenticate the Google coordinate api. Tried the Service acount authentication usisng service account and posted stack flow with this question. Found this anwer and quite describes my question.
What the problem now is the library used is deprecated. Not able to execute the solution said.
var auth = new OAuth2Authenticator<WebServerClient> (provider, GetAuthorization);
// Create the service.
var service = new CoordinateService(new BaseClientService.Initializer()
{
Authenticator = auth
});
can anybody suggest a way to achieve the above code. I have installed the new version for Google APIs OAuth2 Client Library. But didn't found any similar code.
I am able to do the read the api using the below code snippet
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2;
using Google.Apis.Coordinate.v1;
using Google.Apis.Coordinate.v1.Data;
using Google.Apis.Services;
using (var stream = new FileStream(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(#"../client_secret.json"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
credential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets,
new[] { CoordinateService.Scope.Coordinate },
"user", CancellationToken.None);
}
// Create the service.
var service = new CoordinateService(new BaseClientService.Initializer()
{
HttpClientInitializer = credential,
ApplicationName = "test",
});
//builds with time last day 12 am
var locationReq = service.Location.List(teamId, workerMail, (ulong)DateTime.Today.AddDays(-1).ToUniversalTime().Subtract(new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).TotalSeconds);
var locationResult = locationReq.Execute();
but this method reuires a redirection for the first time. I can't do that in my scenario. so need an offline solution.
Need to authenticate using a browser instance first and can reuse same "refresh token" for all other requests. We can provide a custom folder location to store the "auth token" and the library will use stored token from that folder. Modified source code pasted below:
using (var stream = new FileStream(#"client_secret.json", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
credential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets,
new[] { CoordinateService.Scope.Coordinate },
"user", CancellationToken.None,new FileDataStore(folder));
}
MG
It looks like you are using a very old version of the library (pre GA).
I recommend you to download the latest Coordinate API, which is available in NuGet - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Google.Apis.Coordinate.v1/.
Then, follow the get started and the OAuth 2.0 pages. You should find all the right documentation there, if something is missing - let us know. Open an issue in our issue tracker.