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Full working example for interacting with google

Franklin van de Meent edited this page Jul 29, 2014 · 3 revisions
	var sys = require('util');
	var OAuth = require('oauth').OAuth;

	var oa = new OAuth("https://www.google.com/accounts/OAuthGetRequestToken",
		"https://www.google.com/accounts/OAuthGetAccessToken", 
		"anonymous",  "anonymous", 
		"1.0A", undefined, "HMAC-SHA1");       

	oa.getOAuthRequestToken({"scope":"http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds"}, function(error, oauth_token, oauth_token_secret, results) {
		if (error) {
			console.log('error: ' + JSON.stringify(error));
		} else {
			console.log('oauth_token: ' + oauth_token);
			console.log('oauth_token_secret: ' + oauth_token_secret);
			console.log('requestoken results: ' + sys.inspect(results));
			console.log("Requesting access token");
			console.log('Please go to https://www.google.com/accounts/OAuthAuthorizeToken?oauth_token=' + oauth_token);
			ask("Please enter the verification code:\n", /[\w\d]+/, function(data) {
				oa.getOAuthAccessToken(oauth_token, oauth_token_secret, data, accessTokenCallback);
			});
		}
	});

	function accessTokenCallback(error, access_token, access_token_secret, results) {
		if (error) {
			console.log('error: ' + JSON.stringify(error));
		} else {
			console.log('oauth_access_token: ' + access_token);
			console.log('oauth_access_token_secret: ' + access_token_secret);
			console.log('accesstoken results: ' + sys.inspect(results));

			console.log('getting a list of all your calendars');
			var url = 'http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/allcalendars/full?v=2&alt=jsonc';
			var request = oa.get(url, access_token, access_token_secret, function(error, data) {
				if (error) {
					console.log(error);
				} else {
					var calendars = JSON.parse(data).data.items;
					for (var i = 0; i < calendars.length; ++i) {
						console.log(calendars[i].title);
					}
				}
			});
		}
	}

	function ask(question, format, callback) {
		var stdin = process.stdin;
		var stdout = process.stdout;

		stdin.resume();
		stdout.write(question);

		stdin.once('data', function(data) {
			data = data.toString().trim();

			if (format.test(data)) {
				callback(data);
			} else {
				stdout.write("It should match: "+ format +"\n");
				ask(question, format, callback);
			}
		});
	}