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Helper function to get always an oauth 2 valid token given a refresh token.
The mechanism is explained here.
If the token has expired, it will fetch a newone, otherwise it will return the current access token.
npm install refresh-token
var TokenProvider = require('refresh-token');
var tokenProvider = new TokenProvider('http://token-url', {
refresh_token: 'refresh token',
client_id: 'client id',
client_secret: 'client secret'
/* you can pass an access token optionally
access_token: 'fdlaksd',
expires_in: 2133
*/
});
tokenProvider.getToken(function (err, token) {
//token will be a valid access token.
});
There is also a GoogleTokenProvider which has the url already set:
var GoogleTokenProvider = require('refresh-token').GoogleTokenProvider;
var tokenProvider = new GoogleTokenProvider({
refresh_token: 'refresh token',
client_id: 'client id',
client_secret: 'client secret'
});
MIT
FAQs
Returns a new oauth2 access token when expired.
The npm package refresh-token receives a total of 190 weekly downloads. As such, refresh-token popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that refresh-token demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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