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Managing Access and Refresh Tokens for Google Drive API

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On each page, you need to make authenticated API calls to Google Drive. When you log in on a page, you obtain an access token via Google login, and your API requests work correctly. However, refreshing or navigating to a different page forces a re-login every time.

You are implementing an automatic Google login to solve the problem on the main page and storing the access token in Redis. The idea is to reuse the same token across pages so that users don’t have to log in again.

Upon researching your problem, I found in this documentation that access tokens have a limited lifetime.

Access tokens have limited lifetimes. If your application needs access to a Google API beyond the lifetime of a single access token, it can obtain a refresh token. A refresh token allows your application to obtain new access tokens.

By implementing refresh tokens in your OAuth 2.0 flow, you can ensure uninterrupted access to Google APIs for your application without requiring the user to authenticate every time the access token expires. But you should keep in mind the reason for the refresh token expiration.

You may also refer to this SO post: Why does Oauth v2 have both access and refresh tokens

Additionally, the following documentation might help you understand your current limitations:

You can also check out this article for a practical implementation guide:

For further understanding, refer to the official specification:

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