🔑 Gmail OAuth App Flow 🔓➡️✉️

Motiviation

An example app to get you started on a google api cli app.

You could very well run this once in order to get your access and refresh token, or you could modify the code a bit and integrate it into your own app.

This example follows the recommendations of 'Option 2: Loopback IP address (macOS, Linux, Windows desktop)' listed on OAuth 2.0 for Mobile & Desktop Apps

[OAuth Flow] ---> [Loopback Redirect URI] ---> [Fetch Credentials] ---> [Output to Stdout]

Install

• git clone https://github.com/robbywashere/gmail-app-oauth-flow

• Follow the Prerequisites on googles developer portal.

• Download the credentials from 'Prerequisites' instructions into gmail-app-oauth-flow root directory as .config.json

Run

• Run node main.js > .tokens.json

• A browser window prompting you for an google auth flow (should) will pop-up

• Complete auth, now .tokens.json will contain your token data

Notes

• Compatible on node 9+