List of Spreadsheets Gdata OAuth2

Question

Getting a list of spreadsheets with spreadsheet api in Gdata,

Oauth1 Way

spreadSheetService = gdata.spreadsheet.service.SpreadsheetsService()
spreadSheetService.SetOAuthInputParameters(gdata.auth.OAuthSignatureMethod.HMAC_SHA1,self.CONSUMER_KEY,self.CONSUMER_SECRET,two_legged_oauth=True, requestor_id=self.requestor_id)
spreadSheetService.GetSpreadsheetsFeed(query = q)

But since spreadSheetService is not available for OAuth2 because of this won't fix issue #594

How do I query for a list of spreadsheets with gdata.spreadsheets.client.SpreadsheetClient ?

Answer 1

(assuming Python)

I was able to use gd_client.auth_token = gdata.gauth.OAuth2TokenFromCredentials(credentials) to take a credentials object created by an OAuth2 flow (using the oauth2client) and use this with the gdata library.

Full example here (for a command-line app):

# Do OAuth2 stuff to create credentials object
from oauth2client.file import Storage
from oauth2client.client import flow_from_clientsecrets
from oauth2client.tools import run

storage = Storage("creds.dat")
credentials = storage.get()
if credentials is None or credentials.invalid:
  credentials = run(flow_from_clientsecrets("client_secrets.json", scope=["https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds"]), storage)

# Use it within gdata
import gdata.spreadsheets.client
import gdata.gauth

gd_client = gdata.spreadsheets.client.SpreadsheetsClient()
gd_client.auth_token = gdata.gauth.OAuth2TokenFromCredentials(credentials)
print gd_client.get_spreadsheets()

If you're specifically looking for 2-legged, the same technique works, but you will need to create a different type of credentials object. See the following recent answer regarding how to create this: Using Spreadsheet API OAuth2 with Certificate Authentication