I am writing a java desktop application for a single user that needs to access files in Google Drive in one specific google account which I want to hard code into the application. I am very confused about this whole OAuth 2.0 business which I am not familiar with it. Is there a simple way to login to the google apis when the user is known in advance?
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You can have a look at the scribe library, this should make your life easier.
https://stackoverflow.com/tags/scribe/info
https://github.com/fernandezpablo85/scribe-java
Scribe provides an easy, extensible and bug-free way of OAuth-signing requests. But you have to check about their support for oauth 2.0: "OAuth 2.0 support is not going to get any more attention and may eventually be deprecated and dropped." But there are several forks to support Google OAuth 2.0
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clum
This helped a lot and I managed to get it to login, but now I can't figure out how to interface with the google drive api. Is there a way to use Scribe without having to write all of the http requests yourself?
Frederic Close
You can do something like: OAuthRequest request = new OAuthRequest(Verb.GET, "graph.facebook.com/me"); //if you have parameters to pass use: addOAuthParameter("key", "value"); getOAuthService().signRequest(accessToken, request); Response response = request.send();