Error with GooglePhotos API

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