DWdwaite·May 5, 2020
The conversation I had with a Google engineer implied the appropriate course of action was to embed the secret.
https://github.com/openid/AppAuth-JS/issues/46
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AppAuth-JS
JavaScript client SDK for communicating with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect providers.
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4 sourcesThe next time you need to do something like this, take a look at https://github.com/openid/AppAuth-JS.
Here is an example which uses Node, and obtains your access tokens. (https://github.com/openid/AppAuth-JS/blob/master/src/node_ap...)
Once you have that - you can make any API requests by using the correct Authorization headers.
In Using OAuth for a simple command line script to access Google's data“OAuth2 spec is long and complex”.
One of my 20% projects at Google was addressing this very problem. I built an OAuth2 and OpenID-Connect client library for the Web that is written in TypeScript. The library supports web apps, Node.js CLI & Electron based apps.
https://github.com/openid/AppAuth-JS
There are sister projects for Android and iOS as well. Hopefully, OAuth2 complexity will not prevent you from consuming a service going forward.
In Integrating With Netlify: OAuth2 (2016)