Solved: Access token expiration time - Page 2

Caméléon · 03-07-2023 07:41 AM

How can I have longer expiration times for the google cloud APIs or avoid re-authenticating every day or so. It's very frustrating and I would like to find a solution. I'm using multiple google cloud APIs such as analytics, tag manager, my business. All oauth2 authenticated.

imtaher

To extend the expiration time of your Google Cloud APIs' authentication tokens or avoid re-authenticating every day, you can follow these steps:

Use a Service Account: Instead of using your own user account to authenticate, create a service account for your application to access the APIs. Service accounts are specifically designed for server-to-server interactions and don't require frequent re-authentication.
Use Refresh Tokens: When you authenticate with OAuth2, you can request a refresh token in addition to an access token. The refresh token can be used to obtain a new access token when the current one expires, which can extend the expiration time of your authentication.
Set a Longer Expiration Time: By default, Google Cloud API tokens expire after 1 hour. However, you can request a longer expiration time of up to 12 hours by specifying the "expires_in" parameter when you authenticate.
Use Google's Client Libraries: Google's official client libraries (such as the Google Cloud Client Libraries) handle authentication and token refreshing automatically, which can simplify the authentication process and prevent frequent re-authentication.
Use Persistent Storage: To avoid re-authenticating every time your application runs, you can store the access and refresh tokens in a persistent storage such as a database or file system. When your application starts, it can read the tokens from storage and use them to authenticate.

I hope these suggestions help you to extend the expiration time of your Google Cloud APIs' authentication tokens or avoid re-authenticating every day.

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