(node-red-node-google) Something went wrong in the authentication process. Please try again.

[bnovaz]

Hi -

When using the node-red-node google calendar node, I am having trouble completing the "Authenticate with Google" step. I get the following message when I try to authenticate:

"Something went wrong in the authentication process. Please try again."

I am running node-red on a raspberry pi and accessing it via a web browser on my desktop pc (windows).

The hosts file of my desktop pc has the following entry: [raspi IP] node-red.example.com

I am able to access the pi's node-red web page via: http://node-red.example.com:1880 from my desktop pc OK.

I have installed node-red-node-google on the pi's node-red and set up a web application via google's developers console (along with the redirect URI (http://node-red.example.com:1880/google-credentials/auth/callback). I cut and pasted the client ID and client secret into the node-red google credentials node.

When I try to "Authenticate with Google", I am able to step through the following steps: "Choose an Account" I select my google email account - then: Clicking "ALLOW" on the "example.com wants to screen" delivers me to the following screen:

"Something went wrong in the authentication process. Please try again."

For now, I just want to access my google calendar and see upcoming events. What APIs to enable is a little confusing. Various blog entries that I have found suggest that I need the following 3 APIs - although I would thought that I only needed "Google Calendar". I have the following 3 google API's enabled:

Google Calendar API Google Maps Directions API Google+ API

I don't know where to look for info on what went wrong.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Bob

[tomjmul]

Same issue

[bnovaz]

tomjmul - I was able to get this working after building the nodejs quickstart example: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/quickstart/nodejs

Here's a video that shows all of the steps for building the nodejs quickstart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LSEHrCgxOE

Once I had the nodejs quickstart example working, my node-red stuff was working as well. Seems like there might be some missing pieces in the node-red-node-google authentication process.

Good luck - let me know how it works out for you.

-Bob

[dceejay]

Any more detail on this ? Are we missing something ? Or is it config or something that needs to be turned on at the google end ? (api keys etc ?)

[bnovaz]

Dave - I'm not entirely sure. All I can say is that once I created the Google quickstart.js example and executed it, all was now working with the node-red stuff.

To recap:

When I try to "Authenticate with Google", I am able to step through the following steps: "Choose an Account" I select my google email account - then: Clicking "ALLOW" on the "example.com wants to screen" delivers me to the following screen:

"Something went wrong in the authentication process. Please try again."

Then after some searching on developers.google.com, I decided to try the quickstart example described here: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/quickstart/nodejs

When I first ran the quickstart example, it prompted me to authorize access (just like the "Authenticate with Google" step above). I clicked accept and received a code which I pasted into the command line prompt generated by the quickstart example. Once I did that, the quickstart example worked as well as the node-red-node-google node.

It has to have something to do with the code that you receive when you first "Authenticate with Google". With quickstart - I received the code and with the node-red-node-google node, it just hung and delivered the "Something went wrong in the authentication process. Please try again." message after a few moments.

I suspect that for everyone who has already authenticated with Google, the node-red-node-google node will work just fine. For everyone else, it will fail.

I hope this helps. Let me know if I can assist.

-Bob

[drexseoj]

+1

[drexseoj]

I think I found the problem. When you create the Oauth credentials you need to select others. Then you get the id and secret. That worked for me

[Marty56]

Unfortunately the flow at Google has significantly change and the tutorial is basically not working anymore.