Question

I am attempting to retrieve both access and refresh tokens for an application to access a fusion table of mine. I am using the OAuth 2.0 method and simply need to allow users who visit my application to INSERT records into my fusion table.

The problem I am encountering is when running the python script described by Google here. The error I receive when running the code out of the box (in PyDev, with Python 2.7 interpreter) is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\\..\OAuthToken\root\oauth_tokens.py", line 59, in <module>
    redirect_uri)
  File "\\..\OAuthToken\root\oauth_tokens.py", line 41, in retrieve_tokens
    refresh_token = tokens['refresh_token']
KeyError: 'refresh_token'

Does anybody have a solution for me? I read somewhere on GitHub ( github.com/ff0000/red-social-auth/issues/3 – I’m not allowed to post anymore links) something to do with refresh_tokens being semi-retired, but clearly I’m just grasping at straws at this point.

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

So I was having the same issue as stated in the original question and was coming up with nothing. But then I found this, specifying that the original request needed to have access_type=offline so that a refresh token was sent. So I added that to Kathryn’s oauth_tokens script like so.

Edited line 17:

  print '%s?client_id=%s&redirect_uri=%s&scope=%s&access_type=offline&response_type=code' % \

Well I thought this would solve my problem but it did not. I guess since the application initially registered with the default access type of “online” it would not grant a refresh token. This was solved by revoking access to the application under the Google account settings page.

Accounts -> Security -> Authorizing applications and sites -> Edit

I hope this helps someone as this was driving me nuts for a while.

I have added the script I am using on Github: https://github.com/mejackreed/fusion-tables-oauth-tokens/blob/master/oauth.py