How to get Gmail API Token
Yeison Cruz
Posted on November 17, 2020
First of all, login using you google account.
To generate the token, follow the next steps:
- Generate
credentials.json
from gmail page (next step) - Go to Gmail guide and generate the credentials file (just if you dont have one)
- Create a folder to run the code
mkdir gmail-generate
. - create the quickstart file
touch quickstart.php
- Execute
composer require "google/apiclient"
- run
php quickstart.php
(file content is below) - Now in the folder path you have a
token.json
file
<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
if (php_sapi_name() != 'cli') {
throw new Exception('This application must be run on the command line.');
}
/**
* Returns an authorized API client.
* @return Google_Client the authorized client object
*/
function getClient()
{
$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setApplicationName('Gmail API PHP Quickstart');
$client->setScopes(Google_Service_Gmail::GMAIL_READONLY);
$client->setScopes(Google_Service_Gmail::GMAIL_MODIFY);
$client->setAuthConfig('credentials.json');
$client->setAccessType('offline');
$client->setPrompt('select_account consent');
// Load previously authorized token from a file, if it exists.
// The file token.json stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is
// created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first
// time.
$tokenPath = 'token.json';
if (file_exists($tokenPath)) {
$accessToken = json_decode(file_get_contents($tokenPath), true);
$client->setAccessToken($accessToken);
}
// If there is no previous token or it's expired.
if ($client->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
// Refresh the token if possible, else fetch a new one.
if ($client->getRefreshToken()) {
$client->fetchAccessTokenWithRefreshToken($client->getRefreshToken());
} else {
// Request authorization from the user.
$authUrl = $client->createAuthUrl();
printf("Open the following link in your browser:\n%s\n", $authUrl);
print 'Enter verification code: ';
$authCode = trim(fgets(STDIN));
// Exchange authorization code for an access token.
$accessToken = $client->fetchAccessTokenWithAuthCode($authCode);
$client->setAccessToken($accessToken);
// Check to see if there was an error.
if (array_key_exists('error', $accessToken)) {
throw new Exception(join(', ', $accessToken));
}
}
// Save the token to a file.
if (!file_exists(dirname($tokenPath))) {
mkdir(dirname($tokenPath), 0700, true);
}
file_put_contents($tokenPath, json_encode($client->getAccessToken()));
}
return $client;
}
// Get the API client and construct the service object.
$client = getClient();
$service = new Google_Service_Gmail($client);
// Print the labels in the user's account.
$user = 'me';
$results = $service->users_labels->listUsersLabels($user);
if (count($results->getLabels()) == 0) {
print "No labels found.\n";
} else {
print "Labels:\n";
foreach ($results->getLabels() as $label) {
printf("- %s\n", $label->getName());
}
}
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Yeison Cruz
Posted on November 17, 2020
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