Google Oauth out-of-band (OOB) Flow Deprecated Oct 3

[dbenton9]

In lieu of the new google security updates, I'm assuming this google_drive gem will be affected because it uses OOB.

Is there going to be a way to work around this?

[JamJacques]

Any news of that issue ? Should we use from_credentials or from_access_token method to bypass the potential problem related to this release ?

[dbenton9]

No news 😢

Regardless of from_credentials or from_access_token I don't think this gem will work because its based on OOB.

I was able to get an extension from google until Jan 31, 2023 to continue using OOB, I'm hoping my project will be mostly wrapped up by then and then I will no longer need this gem, but that doesn't help those who rely on it for ongoing projects.

[cwant]

This is a work around that at least gets me up and running with some little scripts in the short term.
See this line here:
https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby/blob/master/lib/google_drive/session.rb#L158

Change the value of the redirect_uri to 'http://localhost:1/'.

Run your code as usual, paste the URL into the browser. You will get an error in the browser after agreeing to the scopes, but the error will also contain the code you need to paste into your app.

I stole the idea from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/71331562

[cfgv]

No news 😢

Regardless of from_credentials or from_access_token I don't think this gem will work because its based on OOB.

I was able to get an extension from google until Jan 31, 2023 to continue using OOB, I'm hoping my project will be mostly wrapped up by then and then I will no longer need this gem, but that doesn't help those who rely on it for ongoing projects.

Hello, dbenton9 How did you get this extension?

[dbenton9]

@cfgv I filled out this form.

[cfgv]

This is a work around that at least gets me up and running with some little scripts in the short term. See this line here: https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby/blob/master/lib/google_drive/session.rb#L158

Change the value of the redirect_uri to 'http://localhost:1/'.

Run your code as usual, paste the URL into the browser. You will get an error in the browser after agreeing to the scopes, but the error will also contain the code you need to paste into your app.

I stole the idea from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/71331562

Does this work for anyone else? That is to say it lets authenticate and select the permissions, but when I fill the code it gets Signet::AuthorizationError: Authorization failure. Server message:

NOTE: I am doing the authentication from console

[Carpela]

Has anyone looked in detail at this as to whether the gem can be adapted?
I have a load of relatively tricky functionality and automation based on interacting and exporting google sheets using this. Would be an absolute pain to redo it.
I did adapt a gmail manipulation app once but remember finding some of google's security approaches pretty impenetrably overengineered.
Worth clarifying that my use case is very much a server side interaction with a service account. I don't need users to authenticate because the data belongs to my 'system'. (Though I guess I could pretend it was based on certain admin users, just seems like a massive pain for something that was working well.)

[cfgv]

Does anyone know of another library that does this?

[jgmontoya]

Have you guys found a working solution to this?

[dbenton9]

Negative.

[koos]

Have the same problem here...

[koos]

Wouldn't it be a solution to replace:

https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby/blob/55b996b2c287cb0932824bf2474248a498469328/lib/google_drive/session.rb#L158C1-L159C1

with

redirect_uri: config.redirect_uri

and just pass a 'dummy' redirect_uri in your method?
Something like this:

require 'google_drive'

require 'google_drive'

class GoogleDriveService

  attr_accessor :client_id, :client_secret, :redirect_uri, :refesh_token, :scope, :save, :scope, :refresh_token

  def initialize(client_id, client_secret, redirect_uri)
    @client_id = client_id
    @client_secret = client_secret
    @redirect_uri = redirect_uri
  end
  
  def create_session
    session = GoogleDrive::Session.from_config(self)
  end

end```