rearrange flow to remove reference to creds

[alifeee]

I don't fully know how to test this

@lavigne958 please advise :)

[lavigne958]

The fox looks good ! I just want to run a test to confirm.
To test this code you need to generate oauth credentials, then extract the JSON information and pass them as dict and see what happens 🧐

[alifeee]

I try to test using

import gspread

gc = gspread.oauth(
    credentials_filename="credentials.json",
    authorized_user_filename="authorised_user.json",
)

sht = gc.open_by_url(
    "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/89fua83fu983w8fu89s38fu/"
)
ws = sht.sheet1
print(ws.get())

but I get gspread.exceptions.APIError: APIError: [400]: This operation is not supported for this document. I have not used oauth before so it confuses me. Perhaps I will attempt this again soon, but if I do not, feel free to

[lavigne958]

I try to test using

import gspread

gc = gspread.oauth(
    credentials_filename="credentials.json",
    authorized_user_filename="authorised_user.json",
)

sht = gc.open_by_url(
    "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/89fua83fu983w8fu89s38fu/"
)
ws = sht.sheet1
print(ws.get())

but I get gspread.exceptions.APIError: APIError: [400]: This operation is not supported for this document. I have not used oauth before so it confuses me. Perhaps I will attempt this again soon, but if I do not, feel free to

the way oauth works is as follow:

• the first time you run the call to gspread.oauth() it uses the credentials file for authentication
• then it creates a file called authorized_user.json where it saves some token and some infos.
• you obtain some credentials to use for any request you make

later (like some hours, days laters)

• you run the oauth call again
• it see you authorized_user.json file
• it tries to use it to authenticate yourself as the token is possibly still valid !
• if it works you get credentials from that file and you keep making requests
• if it does not you need to re-authenticate using the original credential file

Here it seems you make a request to a wrong url, the spreadsheet ID look too short and does not look like it's valid, usually it contains letters+numbers and it's case sensitive so it has a mix of lowercase + uppercase letters + numbers.

I tried your code and using my url for my spreadsheet file it works.

[lavigne958]

I ran the code and tried using received authentication token, running with new credentials etc. everything works as expected.