Hi everyone :slight_smile: I wrote a python script using the official python wrapper for the asana API. Authentication and all the others things i planed to do are working very well, but when my token expires after 60 minutes I struggle to detect that. Is there a method to check if authentication i…

Hey @Jakob_Developer ! Good question. It looks like our library uses requests-oauthlib, who’s docs are here: OAuth 2 Workflow — Requests-OAuthlib 1.3.1 documentation I think the best solution is the third option, automatic refreshing. With our lib in it’s current state, you should be able to do it …

Hi @Ross_Grambo just checking, I take it the library hasn’t been updated yet to add the refresh logic? I’m struggling with this myself. Cheers, Peter B

I was able to get this working using the following code (I’m having a little trouble w/formatting): token[‘expires_in’] = -10 client = asana.Client.oauth( client_id = CLIENT_ID, client_secret = CLIENT_SECRET, token = token, auto_refresh_url = TOKEN_EXCHANGE_URL, auto_refresh_kwargs = { ‘cli…

I am right now struggling with this. Why is this not part of the python library yet? This should be HIGH priority since many backend applications will need this. I can’t believe this is not implemented yet :roll_eyes:

Hi asana devs, can this be documented better or you can just give a code snippet?

[image] anon54809188: It’s also important to note that your code has to keep track of the token’s moment of expiration and change token[‘expires_in’] accordingly. The auto refresh is only triggered when that value is negative. Do you have to invoke some library function for the auto refresh o…

Bump. Still no success with getting a refresh, token, see also my post here: [image] Get refresh token Developers & API Hi, i am trying to get refresh tokens for my python app according to the sparse information of the API doc, but i just can’t get it to work. How do yo…

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Ross_Grambo 6 May 2020 21:38 4

Sorry @Peter_Bowmar, I haven’t prioritized this yet. I would review a PR if you get it working in the meantime.

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