[Baypiggies] interfacing gdata.spreadsheet.service and oauth2client

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

Oh, and I just found out that the latest Python client library for GData
now has support for OAuth2.

-jj

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:

> No worries, JJ.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Glen
>
> On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I know exactly the problem that
> you're talking about because we had the same problem for YouTube APIs. It
> turns out that you can use the newer Google APIs client library to do all
> of your OAuth2 stuff and then futz with the GData client library to make
> use of your OAuth2 tokens.
>
> Here's a program (http://code.google.com/p/party-playlist-picker/) that
> uses this hybrid trick. Just grep for gdata, OAuth2, etc. and you'll find
> what you need.
>
> Happy hacking, and sorry I didn't get this response back to you before
> your deadline.
>
> -jj
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm going to take another stab at this. I have written a program with a
>> Google library called 'gdata.' When I wrote the program, it was a fairly
>> small project and it was acceptable (although I didn't really like it) to
>> put a username and a password in an external file and then read that file
>> into the program and authenticate. This is how the gdata library seems to
>> work (at least to the best of my knowledge (although I do think they
>> support Oauth1 so I may have used that).
>>
>> Success brings it's own problems. I want to scale this program up many
>> *many* times more than it's running now. Instead of a single gdata query
>> running every six minutes or so, it now will run in bursts of 5K at a time.
>> Possibly around 6K spread over an hour every hour.
>>
>> When seeing what would still work, the automatic program receives a
>> "Captcha" assertion. I couldn't find what Google's limits were that caused
>> this, but I received it just after a burst of 10 queries.
>>
>> Reading Google's online documentation, I need to use Oath2 for all of
>> these services. Great! I like this -- especially the API console that's
>> available to me (I'm using the Google Drive/Google Spreadsheet API). I have
>> successfully used Google's oauth2client client library to authenticate and
>> use Oauth2.
>>
>> However, my problem is that I can't stick these two libraries together. I
>> don't see an easy way (or at least the designed way) to do this. I'm hoping
>> that I'm missing something obvious and that I just need to learn how to
>> interface with gdata better. It's a time crunch project (aren't they all)
>> and so I really hadn't had the time to learn the gdata library well enough.
>>
>> Has anyone tried to stick these two libraries together? It seems
>> something that I imagine many people are needing to do. Since I don't see a
>> lot of Google responses/questions to this, I can only imagine I'm missing
>> something painfully obvious and easy.
>>
>> So, for my second stab at asking, has anyone encountered this? Or, better
>> yet, has anyone interface gdata with oauth2client python libraries?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Glen
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried to use the gdata.spreadsheet.service with Google's
>>> Oauth2?
>>>
>>> I have a service that I've written that uses gdata.spreadsheet.service.
>>> It used to use ProgrammaticLogin. I want to convert this to Oauth2. I
>>> thought there would be work already in this area by now. But, I'm not
>>> finding it.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else ran into this?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> Glen
>>> --
>>>
>>> "Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life as a dog does
>>> his master's chase. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury
>>> it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."
>>>
>>> --Henry David Thoreau
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>> master's chase. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it,
>> unearth it, and gnaw it still."
>>
>> --Henry David Thoreau
>>
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