Token needs to be renewed every 7 days
Fermonte Staff asked 4 years ago
Hi Nikola,
like other users, I found that the token needs to be renewed after 7 days for the sync with Google to continue working. I have not changed the password.
Apparently Google has changed the authorization process. I found the following information at https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2:
"A Google Cloud Platform project with an OAuth consent screen configured for an external user type and a publishing status of "Testing" is issued a refresh token expiring in 7 days.
There is currently a limit of 50 refresh tokens per Google Account per OAuth 2.0 client ID. If the limit is reached, creating a new refresh token automatically invalidates the oldest refresh token without warning. This limit does not apply to service accounts."
So if you are a test user, you have to renew the token every 7 days and you can do this maximum 50 times. Is this correct? Do you have any solution for this?
Best regards, Christian
1 Answers
Fermonte Staff answered 4 years ago
Hi, thanks for your message. As you described, it makes sense to set a reminder every 7 days to renew the token. From my point of view this is not a professional solution. This will affect all buyers of the EA extension (and obviously other plugins/apps that sync with Google). I had contacted the developer of EA directly, but he has not responded so far.
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