Google OAuth 2.0 full example bash script.

gettoken.sh

#!/bin/bash

#1) on https://console.developers.google.com/ register project and associate API from library
# OUTPUT: client_id,client_secret
client_id="..."
client_secret="...."

#2) get authorization code at the following link using web browser
# OUTPUT: code
scope="https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive"
url="https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?client_id=$client_id&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&scope=$scope&response_type=code"
code="..."

#3) use the code to obtain a OAuth2.0 Token
# OUTPUT: token and refresh_token in JSON
curl --request POST --data "code=$code&client_id=$client_id&client_secret=$client_secret&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&grant_type=authorization_code" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token
refresh_token="..."
token="..."

#4) refresh if needed
curl --request POST --data "--data 'client_id=$client_id&client_secret=$client_secret&refresh_token=$refresh_token&grant_type=refresh_token" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token

#5) get status of token
curl "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/tokeninfo?access_token=$token"

#6) use the token in a specific API (assed ass access_token=$token)
docid="...."
curl "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/$docid/export?format=csv&access_token=$token"

At line 21,

curl --request POST --data "--data 'client_id=$client_id&client_secret=$client_secret&refresh_token=$refresh_token&grant_type=refresh_token" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token

It must be without the extra --data

curl --request POST --data "client_id=$client_id&client_secret=$client_secret&refresh_token=$refresh_token&grant_type=refresh_token" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token"

Question: Line 27 docid="....", where does this value come from?

Request: would you post an example of sending a cURL smtp message with OAuth2 though gmail?

In the step 3, I could not obtain the refresh_token. I only could obtain the access_token but not the refresh_token

Very helpful, thanks for sharing. Now I know why there aren't many code samples that use shell scripting instead of Python etc. Oauth is a lot of work and doesn't really lend itself to linear Unix pipelines :(

in step 2 how to extract code from above url?