PYTHON SELENIUM AUTHOMATION GOOGLE OAUTH 2.0

tommasoBicocchi

Hi evryone,

I need to "automate" the extraction of data from Google Calendar API;

The mechanism of authentication is the OAUTH 2.0, personally I've developed a workflow that:

1- Let the user authenticate on gmail(displaying it a link) to get its first Code;

2- This code will be used into more download tool to extract an access token or a refresh token(with a usage limit).

I want to try to automate the first phase using the library Selenium from Python:

- Is it actually possible?(i can insert a Python tool at the beginning of the workflow);

- Is it something that can actually work on the Server(the code will needs to open a browser and replicate authentication behaviour)?

Thank you,

T.

tommasoBicocchi

After some interventions I've solved the problem without the usage of Selenium.

For anyone that could be interested, a complete automation of Google API(Calendar, Sheets etc..) usage can be achieved through the setup of a Service Account, then If you want to get any access_token without any login effort by a user:

- using HTTP requests;

- using Python client library;

check that link(https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/service-account).

The solution works also on Server environment.