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hermanho / MMM-GooglePhotos

Display your photos on MagicMirror from Google Photos.
MIT License
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Error 403: access_denied #109

Closed robertybob closed 3 years ago

robertybob commented 3 years ago

Hi. I'm trying to generate the token. When I go to generate the token, no window opens so I have to copy and paste the URL. When I go this, I'm greeted by the following

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I've followed all of the steps in the readme, so I'm confused why I'm presented with this.

aneaville commented 3 years ago

This appears to be an issue with your google project, not so much this app. Have you checked your google project to make sure you have a client ID? image

There have been similar errors in other issues. You can search through closed issues to see if anything suggested in those can help you.

robertybob commented 3 years ago

I've solved this now. I had to add my same email address as a member to my project, under the permissions section

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May be worth adding this to the readme as a possible step that users will have to do once they've created their project :)