Finally got it working! Using kjur’s jsjws pure JavaScript implementation of JWT. I used this demo as the basis for generating the JWT to request the token. Here are the steps In the Google Developers console I created a service account. Here are instructions for that In the Google API console I added the service … Read more
Edit the crypto.py file mentioned in the stacktrace and remove the offending line by commenting it out with a # Then upgrade latest version of PyOpenSSL. pip install pip –upgrade pip install pyopenssl –upgrade Now you can re-add the commented line again and it should be working
UPDATE July 21st, 2012 Google Analytics API V3 now supports OAuth2 tokens returned by a .p12-signed JWT request. That is, we can now use the Analytics API w/ service accounts. Currently pulling 4 years of day-by-day metrics, just for the hell of it. Here’s a quick ‘n’ dirty step-by-step: Go to the Google API Console … Read more
So i finally figured out how to do this. The basic idea is that you have the token you get the first time you ask for authentication. This first token has a refresh token. The first original token expires after an hour. After an hour you have to use the refresh token from the first … Read more