Google Extension
Matías García Isaía edited this page Feb 13, 2021
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To obtain data from Google Drive or Google Sheets for OpenRefine requires OAuth credentials. For obtaining the OAuth credentials follow these steps:
- Go to the Google API Console
- Click on Create Project.
- Pick a project name such as My OpenRefine Dev Project.
- Fill the required fields.
- Hit Create for creating the project.
- Pick Enable APIs and Services.
Enable the following services:
- Google Sheets API
- Google Drive API
OAuth consent screen pane:
- Go to the OAuth consent screen pane.
- As user type, pick External.
- Fill the form for the OAuth credentials.
- For the OAuth scopes, pick ../auth/drive/ which will give you write access to your Google Drive.
- For the domain (and other URLs), you can pick anything (since the localhost will be allowed anyway).
- Hit Save to save the consent screen.
Credentials pane:
- Go to the Credentials pane.
- Create new OAuth credentials, adding as allowed origin
http://127.0.0.1:3333, and as allowed callback URL:http://127.0.0.1:3333/extension/gdata/authorized - Copy your client id, client secret key
- Go back to the Credentials Pane, and create a new API key. Copy its value.
- Save them in a file outside your git clone of OpenRefine.
- Add Java property definitions for your client id and secret key by adding
-Dext.gdata.clientid=<yourid>-Dext.gdata.clientsecret=...-Dext.gdata.apikey=...to your JVM arguments. This can be done by editing therefine.inifile at the root of the code base.