Google access token expiration time

Question

When I obtain an access_token from the Google API, it comes with an expires_in value. According to the documentation, this value indicates \"The r

Answer 1

From Google OAuth2.0 for Client documentation,

• expires_in -- The number of seconds left before the token becomes invalid.

Answer 2

Have a look at: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2UserAgent#handlingtheresponse

It says:

Other parameters included in the response include expires_in and token_type. These parameters describe the lifetime of the token in seconds...

Answer 3

Since there is no accepted answer I will try to answer this one:

[s] - seconds

Answer 4

The spec says seconds:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-22#section-4.2.2

expires_in
    OPTIONAL.  The lifetime in seconds of the access token.  For
    example, the value "3600" denotes that the access token will
    expire in one hour from the time the response was generated.

I agree with OP that it's careless for Google to not document this.