I am attempting to connect a Google Assistant app using DialogFlow(Api.AI) with Firebase Auth. My App uses Firebase Auth to maintain user accounts and the realtime database to store data. I would like to be able to make changes to a user's data through the Google Assistant, maybe using something like a cloud function. In order to make any user changes through Google Assistant, I need to link the user's Google Assistant account with their Firebase Auth account. The current mechanism appears to be using an OAuth flow documented here.
The question I have is, what is the best way to accomplish this? Do I need to set up a custom OAuth server? There is a lot of documentation on Google's cloud website about OAuth, but it all appears to be related to using OAuth to access Google's APIs, and I can't really see a simple way to host this linking mechanism in GCP.
There is this question that is pretty close, but the difference I have is that I don't have an external API, I just want to authenticate my user and be able to modify their data in the realtime database.
Thank you for your help!
here is an example: https://github.com/malikasinger1/Quiz-Assistant
i have done it myself with following best practices,
feel free to comment if you don't understand something.
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I need to authenticate to an API using OAUTH2, however, it has to be made programmatically, no user typing stuff in a browser is permitted.
This seems like such a simple use case, but I haven't found anything online, the only thing close to it was this post, and the only answer is "yeah, you don't want to use a web browser, but what if you do?"... This doesn't help.
So, please, opening a web browser is not an option, I just want to know if Google provides any way to authenticate purely through code.
Thank you!
In order to achieve your goal, I would like to propose to use the Service account. When the Service account is used, the access token can be retrieved without using the browser.
As the points for using the Service account, please check the following points.
The Service account is not your own Google account.
For example, as one of several situations, if you want to manage a file in your Google Drive using the Service account, please share the file with the Service account. By this, the Service account can access to the file in your Google Drive.
References:
OAuth2ServiceAccount
Several cases using the Service account
Google Drive Access - Service Account or OAuth - To read/write user files
Google service account not being authorized for calendar API
Service Account for google sheets returns not found
I'm trying to integrate Google SignIn into my iOS app that uses Realm to manage users. I’ve signed into Google and retrieved my user. I’m ready to send my token to my Realm Cloud instance to get a SyncUser. I’m on the Authentication page of my Realm Cloud dashboard. I’ve got the JWT tab open.
And I have no idea what the heck to do now. Googling around isn’t helping because I don’t know precisely what I’m looking for.
Please help!
Edit: https://docs.realm.io/platform/using-synced-realms/user-authentication/additional-providers seems to indicate that Realm Cloud cannot use Google or Facebook authentication? That seems crazy.
BUT, that’s actually sort of okay with me, since once I get a SyncUser I “convert” them an object of my custom class YpbUser for my app’s purposes. If I’m storing all the user’s actual usable info in my realm as a YpbUser object, can I just use an Anonymous SyncUser authentication?
I'm using thephpleague oauth client library and everything works fine except for Google authentication. It seems I have to enable my domain somewhere to be able to use Google apps.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/33419?hl=en
This was not helpful indeed as I don't understand what I have to do. Am I obligated to pay for having a working OAuth connection with Google? I don't have a company, I don't need the apps, cloud or any other thing then a working API.
EDIT: to be clear I already wrote my libraries for OAuth and it's all working, it's Google that needs me to do something on domain level.
You don't have to pay. First of all you need to create a project in the Google Developers Console. Then get your credentials. I don't know which API you are going to access. Have a look at this.
https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2?csw=1
Additional - This site was very helpful for using the Google Calendar API
http://www.daimto.com/accessing-google-calendar-with-php-oauth2/#Conclusion
Hope you find what you are looking for.
I'm creating a simple iPhone app. The basic premise is that the app will display some data (That I provide online) on the application. The data changes over time, so the app has to draw the data from online and display it. I don't have a significant programming background so I don't want to use my own server.
Thus, I thought it would be significantly easier to just put the data into some documents on a Google account and then access them programmatically via the Google Drive API. I could then update the data in my Drive account and it would get updated in the application. The key here is that I am ONLY accessing ONE account that I own MYSELF. The users' accounts are not being accessed. Therefore the goal is to never have to log in manually. It should all happen behind the scenes, aka, it should look like a server, not a google doc.
With this in mind, it doesn't make sense to show the Google Accounts sign-in page to my users as the standard OAuth2.0 tutorial shows here:https://developers.google.com/drive/quickstart-ios#step_1_enable_the_drive_api
I should be able to access my own data by somehow hardcoding in my username, password etc. Google agrees here: https://developers.google.com/drive/service-accounts#use_regular_google_accounts_as_application-owned_accounts
The above link mentions a "refresh token" that I'm supposed to save. However, I have no idea how to build and save that token, or even for that matter, where to find it.
I've gone through both the basic tutorial and the Dr. Edit Tutorial for iOS, but they both assume that the application is accessing USER accounts not application-owned accounts.
I'm not asking for someone to write the code for me (though tidbits are nice), but if you can point me to a step-by-step guide or related sample code that would help me get started that would be awesome. I'll even come back and post the code that I use!
EDIT: Since I realized that the Google Drive API wasn't something I could use for what I am trying to do, I eventually found Parse which is an awesome tool that handles all the server backend for me and is free at the basic level.
Google APIs objective-C client library doesn't support service (application-owned) accounts, because they are supposed to be used by a server-side apps, instead of clients -- you shouldn't be distributing your private key as a part of an app.
If you would like to distribute content from a service account, maybe you should write a server leg to do the authentication and pass clients credentials in a secure way for them to talk to the API on the behalf of the service account. Or, use Web publishing to make documents universally accessible without authorization and authentication if privacy is not a concern.
I would like my application to programmatically update my user's gmail/google talk status on their behalf but I dont want to store their password because of the privacy risk
Does anyone know if/how it is possible to use Oauth or some other form of authentication that does not require password storage.
The Google data api docs I have seen support a range of services but dont seem to support Google Talk/Gmail beyond the Google Contacts api.
The Google Talk API seems to explicitly state that username and password are required but I could be mistaken
If it helps, my application is built on App Engine so I can at least use the built in user class to determine their username and email without storing their password but this doesnt seem to give me access to the user's status
Any tips or pointers to apps/code that seems to accomplish this would be helpful. Thanks!
This may not be what you are looking for but it might be a step in the right direction for you.
"the Google Contacts Data API now supports OAuth."
http://groups.google.com/group/oauth/browse_thread/thread/75ee6d973930c791
The post says that "This is our first step towards OAuth enabling all Google Data APIs." And it's quite old so maybe they'll have information about the Gmail API.
Hope it helps.