Error with GooglePhotos API

[sdetweil]

@dum that means you selected the wrong app type on google developers console when creating the cerdentials.

the credentials.json file must start

{"installed":{"

[dum]

@sdetweil Thanks for your answer.
I select “TVs and Limited Input devices” as per the manual.
And the credentials.json file starts with that code you write.
I think that is not the solution or I may be still be doing something wrong.

[bugsounet]

@sdetweil said in Error with GooglePhotos API:

the credentials.json file must start

{"installed":{"

euh installed is deprecied since one years now …
it must start with web: { now

[sdetweil]

@bugsounet eh? works for me every time…

[bugsounet]

@sdetweil just create new credentials and see ;)

For old compatibility:

[sdetweil]

@bugsounet so it should have worked for either type

[dum]

I’m sorry. what should I do?
The credentials.json file is generated automatically from the google developers console… :astonished_face:

[sdetweil]

@dum @bugsounet suggests you pick a different app type, and download a new credentials file

[dum]

@sdetweil thanks for the suggestion, I tried “desktop app” with same result.
the other app types require more data which I dont know how to fill.

[sdetweil]

@dum u need to pick Web Application (1st entry)

need the redirect uri…

where on your system can the api call back to put up the verification screen

http://localhost:6500

should work… its all fake…

[dum]

thanks. I understand I need to write “localhost” the same as you have done.
But no luck. still error in generate_token:

pi-photoframe@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos $ node generate_token.js
[GPHOTOS:CORE] TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'client_id')
/home/pi-photoframe/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos/GPhotos.js:133
      throw e
      ^

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'client_id')
    at new Auth (/home/pi-photoframe/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos/GPhotos.js:35:44)
    at GPhotos.onAuthReady (/home/pi-photoframe/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos/GPhotos.js:130:14)
    at GPhotos.generateToken (/home/pi-photoframe/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos/GPhotos.js:141:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi-photoframe/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos/generate_token.js:10:9)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1165:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1219:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1043:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:878:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:22:47

[dum]

By the way!!! I can start magic mirror… but I’m really trying to set a google photos photframe… the rest of the modules can be checked later.

[sdetweil]

@dum said in Error with GooglePhotos API:

node generate_token.js

ah, you should be using

node generate_token_v2.js

from the doc at
https://github.com/hermanho/MMM-GooglePhotos

Now, open your termial
cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos
node generate_token_v2.js

[dum]

@sdetweil thanks, next step passed using “Desktop app”
But now, google blocks the access even when I try to grant it:

[sdetweil]

@dum u don’t want desktop. you want web

[dum]

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[dum]

@sdetweil
in
https://github.com/hermanho/MMM-GooglePhotos
they say crearly and as “IMPORTANT!!” to select desktop :dizzy_face: :face_with_monocle:

[bugsounet]

So… select it… and apply the rules!
What do you want us to tell you…

(I forget that I work with the google team!)

Do it yourself :)

[dum]

dear @bugsounet & @sdetweil
thanks for your support, I didn’t mean to be rude, I suppose that I was frustrated for all the time I spent, while you were trying to help someone that you didn’t know and without experience :confounded_face:
But finally I made it work!!!
For future readers that may have my same problem, following:
https://github.com/hermanho/MMM-GooglePhotos

Finally I used “desktop app”, but the biggest issue was to allow the user:

[sdetweil]

@dum cool. never had to do that