Get tokens for Google Home Foyer API
Intro
This script (python 3) generates tokens that can be used when making requests to the Google Home Foyer API. There are 2 kinds of tokens used here:
- Master token - Is in the form
aas_et/***
and is long lived. Needs Google username and password. - Access token - Is in the form
ya29.***
and lasts for an hour. Needs Master token to generate.
If you do not want to store the Google account password in plaintext, get the master token once, and set it as an override value.
It's safer/easier to generate an app password and use it instead of the actual password. It still has the same access as the regular password, but still better than using the real password while scripting. (https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords)
Usage
# Install python requirements
pip install gpsoauth
# Update the constants at the beginning of the file
# Get the tokens!
python3 get_tokens.py
I don't know if this will help. I tried multiple scripts/permutations and kept getting the Could Not get token messages. For some reason I decided to edit get_tokens.py in vi/vim and notices that when copying the app password from the google webpage it adds hidden characters. I instead typed the password displayed and this worked.