Unable to make Google Photos API work

Are you sure you used your own client id while generating the tokens? Did you ensure that you added the right scopes to it?

Unfortunately this is one of those scenarios where I cannot help (forum rules forbid me from getting login credentials for your site). It is also one of those scenarios which rarely occurs, if ever – I have only been unable to help one user with Google Photos so far.

You might want to set up a test page with this sort of a shortcode over there:

[gallery type='google' view='albums']

Once you do that you can share the URL for me to take a look.

I set the shortcode you gave me and pasted it on this page https://whitehouse.com.np/gallery/ but still its empty and in classic editor it says No items Found

Do you have a custom shortcode set for Photonic (Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Custom Shortcode)? The classic editor will show you “No items found” if you have set a custom shortcode in the options but are using the gallery shortcode to define Photonic’s galleries.

yes i set the custom shortcode to gphotos, I just replaced “gallery” in the shortcode by gphotos and its giving new error now:

Failed to get data. Error:
Request is missing required authentication credential. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.

BTW Thank you for quick response and you are awesome

OK – unfortunately it seems like you are the second user for whom I will not be able to make this work. I had a long discussion with another person who got this exact same error and I was unable to resolve it in spite of prolonged back-and-forth attempts.

Try deleting your authentication credentials, i.e. delete the keys and the tokens. Then start the authentication process again (use Google OAuth Playground directly) and obtain the tokens. Make sure that when you are doing the authentication you are using your own keys and the right scopes.

If it works, well and good. Otherwise unfortunately I don’t think the attempts to fix this will work.

okay thank you, I was also thinking maybe the error might me because of two different users. I’ll try and do as you said. I’ll Update you if anything goes well.

Thank a lot ??

I went through all the conversation between you and steve. Also, I pasted the codes you provided in pastebin. When i pasted the first one (https://pastebin.com/Bje2vkvu) I got

Token did not exist
Array ( )

and then i pasted this one (https://pastebin.com/U5c1jMbX) and i am getting

WP_Error Object ( [errors] => Array ( [http_request_failed] => Array ( [0] => cURL error 7: Failed to connect to accounts.google.com port 443: Connection refused ) ) [error_data] => Array ( ) )

I have left the document with the second php code pasted. Check it here

Could you help me??

I deleted all the project then created new project and just enabled photos api and also changed the admin email to the same email as i am using the apis from.

But still am unable to use photonic

Unlike steve, When I try and add the photonic gallery using UI I cannot move beyond selecting the google photos. Then it just says no albums found.

Thank you for your support. Hope we can come out of this tunnel.

Sorry for my bad English ??

Also,
I tries using another plugin called forminator to create forms and send data to google api and its also giving me similar issue

Failed to connect to accounts.google.com port 443: Connection refused

so the problem might be somewhere else or something wrong with the way of things i am doing.

Sorry, but I don’t know how to help out with this. If this was happening at my end I could have gone into the code and looked at all possible options, but here that sort of troubleshooting is just not possible. Basically the first error message you got (Request is missing required authentication credential. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential) is a showstopper, and if your authentication was successful there is no reason why that should be coming up.

Not sure if this will help, but it might, so let’s try it: can you try disabling SSL verification from Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Advanced → Turn off SSL verification in calls?

If it doesn’t work, the issue would be either in your site’s configuration, or with another plugin that is preventing the connection from occurring.

No .. i don’t think its going to work

Bad luck i guess.. I’ll try this on a new domain with new google account and everything this weekend and see if it works.

Thank you for all your support

It must be some kind of silly mistake from my side

Good night,

Thanks a lot ??

Also maybe I should try flickr

Hey, @sayontan finally solved the problem

It was not error with the plugin or authentication rather a error due to the website i was hosting from. I was using a free hosting (awardspace) and its free tier didn’t allow the communication with external servers or to send HTTPS requests. so, non of the apis were working.

Thank you for your support and awesome plugin ??

That is fantastic news (phew!)

Thank you for letting me know!