YouTube-OAuth-Snippets

YouTube-OAuth-Snippets

# token.pickle stores the user's credentials from previously successful logins
if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
    print('Loading Credentials From File...')
    with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
        credentials = pickle.load(token)


# Google's Request
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request


# If there are no valid credentials available, then either refresh the token or log in.
if not credentials or not credentials.valid:
    if credentials and credentials.expired and credentials.refresh_token:
        print('Refreshing Access Token...')
        credentials.refresh(Request())
    else:
        print('Fetching New Tokens...')
        flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
            'client_secrets.json',
            scopes=[
                'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly'
            ]
        )

        flow.run_local_server(port=8080, prompt='consent',
                              authorization_prompt_message='')
        credentials = flow.credentials

        # Save the credentials for the next run
        with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as f:
            print('Saving Credentials for Future Use...')
            pickle.dump(credentials, f)

Many thanks for your video and these snippets!

Just 1 question: why do you not save the credentials after a refresh?

^ also wondering this

Hi! Really grateful for this snippet, but confused about lines 13 & 14:
How is "credentials.valid" and "credentials.expired" determined? I've looked through the imports and can't find anything referencing "credentials.valid" or "credentials.expired".
Anyway, thanks for this snippet!

The saving credentials is a huge time saver. thanks for sharing the logic