Google Web Authorization Broker create secret uri - c#

I want to create the UserCredentials for my program and the signature of this task seems to be
Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2.GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
(Uri clientSecretsUri, IEnumerable<string> scopes, string user, CancellationToken taskCancellationToken);
All tutorials I found only just create a ClientSecrets-class and pass that as an argument, sadly this class does not have a .ToUri() method. I also can not find any documentation on how this uri has to be constructed. So given that I obviously have my client id and secret ( and redirect uri's if needed ) how do I create the uri needed for this authorization?

I'm assuming your're developing for the universal windows platform? Then this will work:
as neosapien said, you can download the client_secrets.json from the Developer Console.
Add it to your project with a build action of Content.
then load it according to your location in the project (in this case <ProjectDirectory>/Assets/client_secrets.json) like so:
await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/client_secrets.json"),
new[] {CalendarService.Scope.Calendar, DriveService.Scope.Drive},
"user",
CancellationToken.None)

Go to the Google Developers Console and download the .json file from the Credentials item under the APIs & Auth menu in the left sidebar.
If you want to include .json file in your deployment you can just encrypt it to keep your secret key and id safe.
The following usings are needed:
using Google.Apis.Services // for BaseClientService
using Google.Apis.Util.Store // for FileDataStore
using System.Threading // for CancellationToken.None
using System.Reflection // for accessing the embedded resource of the json file
Using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2
any other google scope specific resources; e.g., Google.Apis.Calendar for the calendar scope or Google.Apis.Gmail for email access.
Create fields and properties as follows:
UserCredentials credentials;
CalendarService calendarService
and this is the code I use for interacting with the Google API:
try
{
GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.Folder = "Tasks.Auth.Store";
credentials = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
GoogleClientSecrets.Load({file name or stream}).Secrets,
new[] {
GmailService.Scope.GmailCompose,
CalendarService.Scope.Calendar,
Google.Apis.Plus.v1.PlusService.Scope.UserinfoEmail },
"user", CancellationToken.None,
new FileDataStore("AppDataFolderName"));
} ...
Since I am installing the encrypted .json file as a part of my software, the entire try/catch block is inside of a using (var cryptoStream = Encryption.ReadJson()) block followed by GoogleClientSecrets.Load(cryptoStream).Secrets but you could just as easily use any file path and name you like.
In the above sample, I am requesting access to read and write gmail, read and write to the Google calendar, and I'd like to know who they are on G+.
Make sure you have enabled the correct APIs in the Google Developers Console.
The real magic doesn't actually happen until you use the credentials to create a service. In the above example, you would use the following code:
calendarService = new CalendarService(new BaseClientService.Initializer()
{
HttpClientInitializer = credentials,
ApplicationName = "My Application"
});
to access the calendar.
I'm pretty sure this is an extremely hacked together way of doing this, but it works for me without any problems. I pieced it together from a lot of the tutorials found here Google Drive | Daimto

Related

How do I get accounts from Azure AD?

I have a nice Azure Active Directory set up with a dozen users. (All me!) So I have a Tenant ID, client ID and Client Secret.
I am also working on a simple console application that will function as a public client for this directory. This client also holds a list of usernames and passwords as this is just meant as a simple experiment. Not secure, I know. But I first need to understand how it works...
I do this:
IConfidentialClientApplication client = ConfidentialClientApplicationBuilder
.CreateWithApplicationOptions(options).Build();
And this creates my client app. Works fine.
I also get a token using "https://graph.microsoft.com/.default" and can use this to get all users as JSON:
string result = await GetHttpContentWithToken("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users",
token.AccessToken);
Although I might want it to be more user-friendly, JSON is fine for now.
How can I check if user is an authorized user?
And no, I don't want complex solutions that require various nuget packages. Just a plain and simple step-by-step explanation. I could probably Google this but I ended up with thousands of results and none were helpful... This should be easy, right?
[EDIT] I first wanted to get a list of users nut that failed because of a typo... (There's a dot before 'default'...)
It took some fooling around but it's not too difficult after all. There are a lot of libraries around Azure but it is all basically just a bunch of HTTP requests and responses. Even in a console application...
I started with making a PublicClientApplicationBuilder first:
var options = new PublicClientApplicationOptions()
{
ClientId = <**clientid**>,
TenantId = <**tenantid**>,
AzureCloudInstance = AzureCloudInstance.AzurePublic,
};
var client = PublicClientApplicationBuilder.CreateWithApplicationOptions(options).Build();
I can also create a ConfidentialClientApplication instead, but this allows me to log in interactively, if need be.
Next, set up the scopes:
var scopes = new List<string>() { "https://graph.microsoft.com/.default" };
As I wanted to log in using username and password, I have to use this:
var token = await client.AcquireTokenInteractive(scopes).ExecuteAsync();
But if I want to log in using code, I can also use this:
var password = new SecureString();
foreach (var c in <**password**>) { password.AppendChar(c); }
var token = await client.AcquireTokenByUsernamePassword(scopes, <**account**>, password).ExecuteAsync();
At this point, I'm authorized as the specified user. So, now all I need is to get whatever data I like, in JSON strings...
public static async Task<string> ExecCmd(string name, string url, string token)
{
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("bearer", token);
string result = await GetHttpContentWithToken(url, token);
JObject json = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(result) as JObject;
File.WriteAllText(name, json.ToString());
return result;
}
As I just want to read the data as text files, I just execute the action in using a specific and write it as formatted JSON to the file . So, using this simple method I can now use this:
await ExecCmd("Profile.txt", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/", token.AccessToken);
await ExecCmd("Groups.txt", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups", token.AccessToken);
await ExecCmd("Users.txt", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users", token.AccessToken);
These will provide me with (1) the profile of the current user, (2) the AD groups and (3) the AD users. And probably a bit more...
I can use this ExecCmd to retrieve a lot more data, if I want to. But there's something else to keep in mind! For it all to work, you also need to configure the Azure application and make sure all access rights are assigned and approved!
So, in Azure AD you have to add an "App registration" and fiddle around with the settings... (The Azure experts are horribly shocked now, but when you want to learn, you'd just have to try and fail until you succeed...)
Also set "Default client type" to "public client" for the registered app.
In Azure, with the registered app, you also need to set the proper API permissions! Otherwise, you won't have access. And as I want access to Active Directory, I need to add permissions to "Azure Active Directory Graph". I can do this inside Azure or by using the scope when I call AcquireTokenInteractive(). For example, by using "https://graph.windows.net/Directory.Read.All" instead of "https://graph.windows.net/.default".
Once you've accessed a token interactively, you can also get more tokens using client.AcquireTokenSilent(). It gets a bit tricky from here, especially if you want to access a lot of different items. Fortunately, Active Directory is mostly the directory itself, groups, users and members.
Personally, I prefer to grant access from the Azure website but this is quite interesting.
Anyways, I wanted to authenticate users with Azure and now I know how to do this. It still leaves a lot more questions but this all basically answers my question...
I'll use this as answer, as others might find it useful...

How to safely store OAuth response file of each user provided by google drive api

I am working on an asp.net application where I ask people to give the authorization (using OAuth) for accessing their google drive (to a particular folder) to be able to list the files within the application.
The following code enables users to provide authorization and creates a corresponding Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2.Responses file in the server to be used for future requests. But, this request will happen for each user, which will create more OAuth response files. I am not sure how to design the application and store these files safely. Probably, I may create a new folder (using the Guid-based UserIds) for each user and save the file in that folder. Does this make sense? Or do you recommend another approach?
using (var stream =
new FileStream("Services/credentials.json", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
string credPath = "token.json";
credential = GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets,
Scopes,
"user",
CancellationToken.None,
new FileDataStore(credPath, true)).Result;
Console.WriteLine("Credential file saved to: " + credPath);
}
BaseClientService.Initializer bcs = new BaseClientService.Initializer();
bcs.HttpClientInitializer = credential;
DriveService service = new DriveService(bcs);
Correction
I am working on an asp.net application where I ask people to give the authorization (using OAuth) for accessing their google drive (to a particular folder) to be able to list the files within the application.
When you request access Its going to be for the users full drive account its not going to be just for one folder.
Storing credential files.
Your question is a bit hard to understand but I think you are asking where you should store your credential files. The way FileDataStore works is that it creates a new file for each "user" so depending upon what you have set for "user" a file will be created as you can see i tend to use a guid at the end and store that in a session var that way i know when the user comes back with this session var its that file i need to grab for them. Actually the client library does all that for you because as soon as it sees the id it will use that automatically.
Web vs installed application.
I do have one major comment if you are using Asp .net and intend to use a web application then you are using the wrong code. The following sample shows how to authenticate using Web appliations asp.net mvc note the session in the code below.
public class AppFlowMetadata : FlowMetadata
{
private static readonly IAuthorizationCodeFlow flow =
new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow(new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Initializer
{
ClientSecrets = new ClientSecrets
{
ClientId = "PUT_CLIENT_ID_HERE",
ClientSecret = "PUT_CLIENT_SECRET_HERE"
},
Scopes = new[] { DriveService.Scope.Drive },
DataStore = new FileDataStore("Drive.Api.Auth.Store")
});
public override string GetUserId(Controller controller)
{
// In this sample we use the session to store the user identifiers.
// That's not the best practice, because you should have a logic to identify
// a user. You might want to use "OpenID Connect".
// You can read more about the protocol in the following link:
// https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login.
var user = controller.Session["user"];
if (user == null)
{
user = Guid.NewGuid();
controller.Session["user"] = user;
}
return user.ToString();
}
public override IAuthorizationCodeFlow Flow
{
get { return flow; }
}
}

How do I set return_uri for GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync?

I am trying to use the Google Calendar API in my non-MVC .NET Web Application. (This appears to be an important distinction.)
I’ve tried to use code from this example at Google and this example at Daimto along with some helpful hints from a number of related posts here.
I have written the following method:
public void GetUserCredential( String userName )
{
String clientId = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[ "Google.ClientId" ]; //From Google Developer console https://console.developers.google.com
String clientSecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[ "Google.ClientSecret" ]; //From Google Developer console https://console.developers.google.com
String[] scopes = new string[] {
Google.Apis.Calendar.v3.CalendarService.Scope.Calendar
};
// here is where we Request the user to give us access, or use the Refresh Token that was previously stored in %AppData%
UserCredential credential = GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync( new ClientSecrets
{
ClientId = clientId,
ClientSecret = clientSecret
}, scopes, userName, CancellationToken.None, new FileDataStore( "c:\\temp" ) ).Result;
// TODO: Replace FileDataStore with DatabaseDataStore
}
Problem is, when Google’s OAuth2 page is called, redirect_uri keeps getting set to http://localhost:<some-random-port>/authorize. I have no idea how to set this to something else, as in the following example URL generated by AuthorizeAsync:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline
&response_type=code
&client_id=********.apps.googleusercontent.com
&redirect_uri=http:%2F%2Flocalhost:40839%2Fauthorize%2F
&scope=https:%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fcalendar
Google responds with a redirect_uri_mismatch error page with the message:
“The redirect URI in the request: http://localhost:XXXXX/authorize/ did not match a registered redirect URI”
I can only register so many Redirect URI’s in my Google Developer’s Console Credentials page. I’m not inclined to register 65535 ports, and I want to use a page other than /authorize on my site. Specifically, I want to use, during development, http://localhost:888/Pages/GoogleApiRedirect but have no clue as to where I would set this, beyond what I've done in the Developer’s Console.
How do I explicitly set the value of redirect_uri? I am also open to a response in the form “This approach is completely wrong.”
EDIT:
After playing with this over the past day, I've discovered that by using the Client ID/Client Secret for the Native Application rather than the Web Application, I can at least get to Google's web authorization page without it complaining about a redirect_uri_mismatch. This is still unacceptable, because it still returns to http://localhost:<some-random-port>/authorize, which is outside the control of my web application.
You can use this code: (original idea from http://coderissues.com/questions/27512300/how-to-append-login-hint-usergmail-com-to-googlewebauthorizationbroker)
dsAuthorizationBroker.RedirectUri = "my localhost redirect uri";
UserCredential credential = await dsAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(...
dsAuthorizationBroker.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2;
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2.Flows;
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2.Requests;
using Google.Apis.Util.Store;
namespace OAuth2
{
public class dsAuthorizationBroker : GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker
{
public static string RedirectUri;
public new static async Task<UserCredential> AuthorizeAsync(
ClientSecrets clientSecrets,
IEnumerable<string> scopes,
string user,
CancellationToken taskCancellationToken,
IDataStore dataStore = null)
{
var initializer = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Initializer
{
ClientSecrets = clientSecrets,
};
return await AuthorizeAsyncCore(initializer, scopes, user,
taskCancellationToken, dataStore).ConfigureAwait(false);
}
private static async Task<UserCredential> AuthorizeAsyncCore(
GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Initializer initializer,
IEnumerable<string> scopes,
string user,
CancellationToken taskCancellationToken,
IDataStore dataStore)
{
initializer.Scopes = scopes;
initializer.DataStore = dataStore ?? new FileDataStore(Folder);
var flow = new dsAuthorizationCodeFlow(initializer);
return await new AuthorizationCodeInstalledApp(flow,
new LocalServerCodeReceiver())
.AuthorizeAsync(user, taskCancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
}
}
public class dsAuthorizationCodeFlow : GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow
{
public dsAuthorizationCodeFlow(Initializer initializer)
: base(initializer) { }
public override AuthorizationCodeRequestUrl
CreateAuthorizationCodeRequest(string redirectUri)
{
return base.CreateAuthorizationCodeRequest(dsAuthorizationBroker.RedirectUri);
}
}
}
If you are trying to use GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync in a .NET application NON-web server application i.e. C# Console App command line program, it's crucial when creating the Google OAuth profile (https://console.developers.google.com/apis) in the credentials to select the following.
DESKTOP APP - This also known now as an installed application
It's hidden under "Help me choose" new credential. You must create a new credential which shows Desktop app and not WebApp.
CLICK "HELP ME CHOOSE"
CHOOSE YOUR INTENDED API LIBRARY
ie (Google Calendar API, YouTube) Select "User Data"
STEP 3 - OAUTH CLIENT ID - Desktop App!
Yeah - NO AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED FILEDS"
ie Javascript & Redirect Now you have a profile without the Web Application redirect authorization
Use the "Download JSON" and save it to your application
Reference in the code below. When you look inside this file, you will notice a different set of parameters as well to tell the broker this is an application. In this example, I am accessing the scope Calendar API. Just change the scope to whatever API you are trying to access.**
string[] Scopes = { CalendarService.Scope.Calendar }; //requires full scope to get ACL list..
string ApplicationName = "Name Of Your Application In Authorization Screen";
//just reference the namespaces in your using block
using (var stream = new FileStream("other_client_id.json", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
// The file token.json stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is created
// automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first time.
string credPath = "other_token.json";
credential = GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets,
Scopes,
"user",
CancellationToken.None,
new FileDataStore(credPath, true)).Result;
}
// Create Google Calendar API service.
var service = new CalendarService(new BaseClientService.Initializer()
{
HttpClientInitializer = credential,
ApplicationName = ApplicationName,
});
//Then your ready to grab data from here using the methods mentioned in Google Calendar API docs
To run this in Docker
When you deploy this to docker you will get an exception that the operating system does not support running the process. Basically, its trying to open a browser on the Metal Box. which is not possible with docker.
To solve this. Modify the code to use full absolute path like this
var inputFolderAbsolute = Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "Auth.Store");
...
new FileDataStore(inputFolderAbsolute, true)
Run this application as a console app on your local machine so the browser opens.
Select the account you want to work with
In the bin folder, a new folder and file will be created.
Copy that folder to the root path
Set the file to copy if newer
Deploy to docker
Because the refresh token is saved for the account you selected it will get a new access token and work.
NB: It is possible the refresh token expires to whatever reason. You will have to repeat the steps above
selecting "other" while creating oAuth Client ID helped me resolve the redirection issue for me. (Having the "Web Application" option tries to redirect to some url with random port, which is very annoying)
Now my Gmail API works like a charm :)
If you are struggling to build a console app that would be able to authenticate to Gmail to send mail, here is what worked. LocalServerCodeReceiver was the key to listening to access token returned from the browser. This code also would obtain a refresh token if needed, and will cache the token on the file system for future use.
var clientSecrets = new ClientSecrets
{
ClientId = YOUR_CLIENTID,
ClientSecret = YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET
};
var codeFlow = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow(new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Initializer
{
DataStore = new FileDataStore(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory),
Scopes = new[] { GmailService.Scope.MailGoogleCom },
ClientSecrets = clientSecrets
});
var codeReceiver = new LocalServerCodeReceiver();
var authCode = new AuthorizationCodeInstalledApp(codeFlow, codeReceiver);
var credential = await authCode.AuthorizeAsync(EmailUser, CancellationToken.None);
if (authCode.ShouldRequestAuthorizationCode(credential.Token))
{
await credential.RefreshTokenAsync(CancellationToken.None);
}
Note:
in my experience, Firefox didn't handle the browser redirect correctly, so I had to switch my default Windows browser to Chrome in order for this to work
even though this code is part of a console app, it is not entirely set up to run unattended; unless the token is cached on the filesystem from prior runs, you would need to manually go through the authentication flow in the browser popup
the OAuth client ID configuration in the Developers console should be set to "Desktop"

Get user email info from a Dotnet Google API

I'm have working two separate implementations of Oauth2 for both the gData and the Drive C# APIs, storing token information in an OAuth2Parameters and AuthorizationState respectively. I'm able to refresh the token and use them for the necessary API calls. I'm looking for a way to use this to get the user's information, mainly the email address or domain.
I tried following the demo for Retrieve OAuth 2.0 Credentials but I'm getting a compile error similar to rapsalands' issue here, saying it
can't convert from
'Google.Apis.Authentication.OAuth2.OAuth2Authenticator<
Google.Apis.Authenticatio‌​n.OAuth2.DotNetOpenAuth.NativeApplicationClient>'
to 'Google.Apis.Services.BaseClientService.Initializer'.
I just grabbed the most recent version of the Oauth2 api dlls so I don't think that's it.
All the other code samples I'm seeing around mention using the UserInfo API, but I can't find any kind of C#/dotnet api that I can use with it without simply doing straight GET/POST requests.
Is there a way to get this info using the tokens I already have with one of the C# apis without making a new HTTP request?
You need to use Oauth2Service to retrieve information about the user.
Oauth2Service userInfoService = new Oauth2Service(credentials);
Userinfo userInfo = userInfoService.Userinfo.Get().Fetch();
Oauth2Service is available on the following library: https://code.google.com/p/google-api-dotnet-client/wiki/APIs#Google_OAuth2_API
For #user990635's question above. Though the question is a little dated, the following may help someone. The code uses Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2 version
var credentials =
await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
new ClientSecrets {ClientId = clientID, ClientSecret = clientSecret},
new[] {"openid", "email"}, "user", CancellationToken.None);
if (credentials != null)
{
var oauthSerivce =
new Oauth2Service(new BaseClientService.Initializer {HttpClientInitializer = credentials});
UserInfo = await oauthSerivce.Userinfo.Get().ExecuteAsync();
}

Accessing older GData APIs (Spreadsheet API) using OAuth 2 and a service account

The short question is whether is this possible and if so, how?
Outline
I have a .NET application which currently uses a service account to access information across a Google Apps domain using the Google Drive API. This works fine using the google-api-dotnet-client library and code along the same lines as shown in the samples here - which are currently a very good basic example of what I'm doing.
What I want to do now is extend it so as well as using those APIs provided by the "new" google-api-dotnet-client library, it uses the older "GData" libraries, as provided for via the
older google-gdata library, specifically the Spreadsheets API (and perhaps more to come).
The Problem
This is where the difficulty arises. The former library does exactly what I want, as evidenced by the second link in the first paragraph above - and the fact I have it doing it myself. HOWEVER... although the second library has been updated to support OAuth 2.0 in addition to OAuth 1.0 and the other older auth techniques, it does not - as far as I can tell from extensive Googling and trail-and-error - allow the "service account on behalf of all my users" operation which I need.
My question is whether I'm missing something (possibly a hard to find or undocumented something) which would allow me to do what I want. Failing that, is there any way I could force this behaviour and make these two libraries operate side by side?
The ideal solution
Ideally I would love some way of having the Google.GData.Spreadsheets.SpreadsheetsService instance be able to take advantage of the Google.Apis.Authentication.Auth2Authenticator<AssertionFlowClient> instance I'm already using... somehow. Is such witchcraft possible? I'm I missing the obvious?
Failing that, I'm happy to do the whole OAuth2 "assertion flow client" dance again if I have to, in some way that the older library can handle.
Help?
Other Thoughts
I have considered - and rejected for the time being - the option of starting from scratch and writing my own library to make this happen. This is for two reasons:
The gdata library already exists, and has been developed by many people likely cleverer than myself. I'm not so arrogant that I believe I can do better.
I'm not certain the OAuth2 with service account approach is even supported/allowed on these older APIs.
An alternate approach which I've been hoping to avoid but may have to fall back to depending on the answers here will be to use 2-legged OAuth 1.0 for portions of this. I'd prefer not to, as having parts of the app rely on one old auth method whilst other parts do it the nice new way just feels wrong to me. And there's that much more to go wrong...
Updates
I have considered the possibility of subclassing GDataRequestFactory and GDataRequest so I can make my own request factory and have that take the instance of Google.Apis.Authentication.Auth2Authenticator<AssertionFlowClient> (well, an instance of Google.Apis.Authentication.IAuthenticator anyway) which could step in to authenticate the request just before it's called. However... the constructor for GDataRequest is internal, which has stopped me.
It's really looking like this isn't meant to be.
For the sake of other folks coming across this question (now that the solution linked to in the accepted answer uses deprecated code), here's how I solved it:
First, start in "new API" land (use the Google.Apis.Auth nuget package) by setting up a ServiceAccountCredential following Google's Service Account example:
//In the old api, this accessed the main api accounts' sheets, not anymore
//** Important ** share spreadsheets with the Service Account by inviting the "serviceAccountEmail" address to the sheet
string serviceAccountEmail = "12345697-abcdefghijklmnop#developer.gserviceaccount.com";
var certificate = new X509Certificate2(#"key.p12", "notasecret", X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable);
ServiceAccountCredential credential = new ServiceAccountCredential(
new ServiceAccountCredential.Initializer(serviceAccountEmail)
{
Scopes = new[] { "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds", "https://docs.google.com/feeds" }
}.FromCertificate(certificate));
Tell the credential to request an Access Token:
credential.RequestAccessTokenAsync(System.Threading.CancellationToken.None).Wait();
Now it's time to switch back to "old API" land (use the Google.GData.Spreadsheets nuget package). Start by constructing the SpreadsheetsService (similar to Google's example):
SpreadsheetsService service = new SpreadsheetsService("MySpreadsheetIntegration-v1");
To use Service Account authentication, we'll create an instance of the GDataRequestFactory and set a custom Authorization header:
var requestFactory = new GDataRequestFactory("My App User Agent");
requestFactory.CustomHeaders.Add(string.Format("Authorization: Bearer {0}", credential.Token.AccessToken));
Finally, set the SpreadsheetsService's RequestFactory property to this new factory:
service.RequestFactory = requestFactory;
And go ahead and use the SpreadsheetsService as you would had you authenticated using any other technique. (Tip: share spreadsheets with the Service Account by inviting the serviceAccountEmail address to the sheet)
I managed to solve this by subclassing GDataRequestFactory and creating my own implementation of the interfaces implemented by GDataRequest. This implementation wraps an instance of GDataRequest instantiated via reflection, and adds in the necessary code to perform authentication using an instance of IAuthenticator (in my case, Auth2Authenticator).
I wrote a blog post on it and added an example as a Gist:
Blog: Using Google's Spreadsheet API using .NET, OAuth 2.0 and a Service Account
Gist 4244834
Feel free to use this if it helps you (BSD licence).
Hey just stumbled accross the same problem and produced a different solution:
Has anybody ever concidered of writing the parameters from the credentials-object directly to an OAuth2Parameters-Object?
I did this and it worked nicely:
public class OAuthTest
{
OAuth2Parameters param = new OAuth2Parameters();
public OAuthTest()
{
Debug.WriteLine("Calling: AuthGoogleDataInterface()");
bool init = AuthGoogleDataInterface();
if (init)
{
GOAuth2RequestFactory requestFactory = new GOAuth2RequestFactory(null, "My App User Agent", this.param);
//requestFactory.CustomHeaders.Add(string.Format("Authorization: Bearer {0}", credential.Token.AccessToken));
var service = new SpreadsheetsService("MyService");
service.RequestFactory = requestFactory;
SpreadsheetQuery query = new SpreadsheetQuery();
// Make a request to the API and get all spreadsheets.
SpreadsheetFeed feed = service.Query(query);
// Iterate through all of the spreadsheets returned
foreach (SpreadsheetEntry entry in feed.Entries)
{
// Print the title of this spreadsheet to the screen
Debug.WriteLine(entry.Title.Text);
}
}
Debug.WriteLine(m_Init);
}
private bool AuthGoogleDataInterface()
{
bool b_success;
try
{
Console.WriteLine("New User Credential");
// New User Credential
UserCredential credential;
using (var stream = new FileStream("client_secrets.json", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
GoogleClientSecrets GCSecrets = GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream);
string[] ArrScope = new[] { "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds", "https://docs.google.com/feeds" };
credential = GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
GCSecrets.Secrets,
ArrScope,
"user", CancellationToken.None,
new FileDataStore("My.cal")).Result;
// put the Information generated for the credentials object into the OAuth2Parameters-Object to access the Spreadsheets
this.param.ClientId = GCSecrets.Secrets.ClientId; //CLIENT_ID;
this.param.ClientSecret = GCSecrets.Secrets.ClientSecret; //CLIENT_SECRET;
this.param.RedirectUri = "urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob"; //REDIRECT_URI;
this.param.Scope = ArrScope.ToString();
this.param.AccessToken = credential.Token.AccessToken;
this.param.RefreshToken = credential.Token.RefreshToken;
}
Debug.WriteLine("AuthGoogleDataInterface: Success");
b_success = true;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Debug.WriteLine(e.ToString());
b_success = false;
}
return b_success;
}
}

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