Google OAuth2 - Using externally generated Access Token - With JS Client Library

Question

For my project i have completed the entire auth flow in a server-side manner, writing my access codes and tokens to text files that can be used by my client-side application.

I am attempting to use gapi.auth.setToken() from the JS CLient Library to 'authorize' my application using this externally generated access token.

The problem occurs when i finally send requests to the various API's i need to access. i receive this error message:

{code: 403, message: "Daily Limit for Unauthenticated Use Exceeded. Continued use require signup.", data: Array[1], error: Object}

This leads me to believe that gapi.auth.setToken() is not doing what i expected it to do.

What am i missing here?

Answer 1

This worked for me :

gapi.auth.setToken({
    access_token: "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"
});

In fact this token object is the same as the one you get within the gapi.auth.authorize() callback. So if something doesn't works as expected, you can add more attributes from there to make it work. Anyway it's still a hack, although there is official documentation on it... Crappy gapi.