How to get access token for google oauth?

Question

I am using C# (ASP.NET). I want to use Google OAuth for accessing the user profile detail in my app. I successfully got the authorization code but having a problem in getting th

Answer 1

As I had similar problems in the process of implementing Google auth, I will post the code that works.. The last mentioned problem: error (400) Bad request could be caused by leading '?' in the above code..

 string codeClient = "code="+ t +"&client_id=number.apps.googleusercontent.com&";
 string secretUri = "client_secret=yoursecret&" + "redirect_uri=path&"
      + "grant_type=authorization_code";
 postString = codeClient + secretUri;

 string url = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token";

 HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url.ToString());
 request.Method = "POST";
 request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

 UTF8Encoding utfenc = new UTF8Encoding();
 byte[] bytes = utfenc.GetBytes(postString);
 Stream os = null;
 try
 {
      request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
      os = request.GetRequestStream();
      os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
 }
 catch
 { }

 try
 {
      HttpWebResponse webResponse = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse();
      Stream responseStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
      StreamReader responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
      result = responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd();//parse token from result

Answer 2

My code is working, I have done mistakes in above two lines. It should be like this

byte[] buffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("code=" + code + "&client_id=xxx&client_secret=xxx&redirect_uri=xxxx&grant_type=authorization_code");
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token");

Remaining code is correct.

Answer 3

I think you are sending the POST request to the wrong endpoint, the correct one is https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token

Answer 4

The original request seems to be somewhat outdated. But I found that the Google's code examples contain lots of "Best Practices" housekeeping code that's hard to separate from the essential operations.

I recently published a document that represents all the REST operations as curl commands. It's hard to be conversant in every language, but curl seems universal. Most people know it- otherwise, it's pretty easy to grasp. In my curl examples, the -d flag indicates a POST operation. Otherwise, the parameters are appended to the URL.

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Answer 5

public string ReceiveTokenGmail(string code, string GoogleWebAppClientID, string GoogleWebAppClientSecret, string RedirectUrl)
{
    string postString = "code=" + code + "&client_id=" + GoogleWebAppClientID + @"&client_secret=" + GoogleWebAppClientSecret  + "&redirect_uri=" + RedirectUrl;

    string url = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token";

    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url.ToString());
    request.Method = "POST";
    request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

    UTF8Encoding utfenc = new UTF8Encoding();
    byte[] bytes = utfenc.GetBytes(postString);
    Stream os = null;
    try
    {
        request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
        os = request.GetRequestStream();
        os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
    }
    catch
    { }
    string result = "";

    HttpWebResponse webResponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
    Stream responseStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
    StreamReader responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
    result = responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd();

    return result;
}