Error with GooglePhotos API

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

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: