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Go to https://console.developers.google.com/.
Create a new GCP project. I called mine proposal-minutes
.
Configure the OAuth consent screen: Go to APIs & Services > OAuth consent
screen. Select "Internal" and click "Create". Enter an app name. I called it
proposal-minutes
. Fill in other required fields, though most can be left
blank. Click "Save and continue". You don't need to add any scopes. Click "Save
and continue".
Enable Google Sheets: Go to APIs & Services > Enabled APIs and Services. Click "Enable APIs and Services". Search for the "Google Sheets API" and enable it.
Create OAuth credentials: Go to APIs & Services > Credentials. Click Create
Credentials > OAuth client ID. Select "Desktop app", give it a name (I used
proposal-minutes
, again), and click Create. On the next screen, click
"Download JSON" and save this file as ~/.config/proposal-minutes/gdoc.json
.
Enable write scope for spreadsheets: Go to APIs & Services > OAuth consent
screen > Data Access and click "Add or remove scopes". Add the
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets
scope, either by finding it in
the table of known scopes or by manually entering it. Click "Update". Finally,
click "Save" on the Data Access page. (Note: If you already had a cached OAuth
token, you'll have to delete it.)
Go to GitHub, then Account Settings > Developer Options > Personal Access Tokens > Fine-grained Tokens.
Click "Generate new token"
The name of the token can be anything. I used proposal-minutes
. The expiration
can be set up to one year out.
Set the "Resource owner" to "golang", then select "Only select repositories" and add the "golang/go" repository.
Under "Repository permissions", set "Issues" to "Read and write".
Under "Organization permissions", set "Projects" to "Read and write".
Save the token.
Copy the access token and save it to ~/.config/proposal-minutes/github.tok
.
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