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In the left menu (“API and Services”), click on “Credentials” and choose OAuth Client ID from the “Create credentials” menu:

Leave all the other options to their default values and go ahead clicking on “ SAVE AND CONTINUE“.Īs last step go in the left menu on “OAuth consent screen” and click on “Publish App”, then click on on “Confirm” in the screen. This is the name that will be shown in the “Consent screen” when making authentication from Iperius. Select “External” and enter your email address and the name of the application. In the left menu (“API and Services”), click on “ OAuth consent screen“. Once the project is created, go in “Library” and enable the “Google drive Api” Sign in with your Google account in the reserved area where you can configure Google APIs, from this URL: Ĭreate a project from “Select a project”: See also: Google Drive backup with Iperius In fact, to make an online backup to Google Drive you first need to enable some specific options, then you have to create an account into Iperius using the credentials provided by Google (Client ID and Client Secret). Enter project name and create the project.This tutorial shows how to enable the Google Drive API for a specific Google account, and get the access credentials to be used from Iperius to make cloud backups. Once logged in, you should see API Console Dashboard, on the Menu bar, select "Select a Project" and click New Project on the dialog. In order to get this token, we need to sign in to the Google API console, generate a token which represents the same account and use it in Postman. Therefore, Postman requires a secure Authentication token to access the Google API. Since Google APIs use OAuth2 for Authentication, we cannot simply use Email and Password to access the API using Postman.

Why do we need to Sign in to Google services? Use the Authorization code as Authentication Token in Postman to access Google Driveįirst, we need to log in to Google API Console using a valid Gmail Account.Obtain an Authorization Code using created Credentials.Create a Project in Google API Console and Enable your API.In this post, we will see how to access the Google Drive API and create a dummy file on my Drive using a REST Call.

Google has exposed a very sophisticated amount of APIs for its cloud services like Drive, Maps, Calendar, etc. So as a small assignment, I tasked myself to find out whether it is possible to access and possibly manage my Google drive using REST API calls.