Credentials

Obtaining a Client ID

Creating a Google Project

The first step involves setting up a Google API Project. If you do not have a Google API project set up in the API Manager, follow these steps:

• When you log into the API Manager, your screen should look similar to this

If you already have a listing of projects at the top, proceed to create a client ID. If not, read on.

• Start off by clicking on the project selection link

• Now, click on the “NEW PROJECT”

• On the resultant screen fill out a project name and click “Create”

That’s it. Your project will now appear in the project selection dropdown.

Creating a Client ID

The Client ID is mandatory for Google. To get one:

• Select Your created project. You will see a screen like this.

• Note that the above screen will show up if you have an API Project already. If you don’t, you can create one as per the previous section.
• Now you need to get your client ID. For this, click on the “Create Credentials” button, and select “OAuth client ID”:

• If you have previously created a consent screen, the buttons below will be enabled, and you can go to step below. If you haven’t, you will need to create a “Consent Screen” before you can proceed. Click on “Configure consent screen”.

• Pick external, because you are going to use your GMail account for authentication

• On the consent screen provide the “Application Name” and provide your site’s domain name as the authorised domain (for me my authorised domain is bplugins.com; for you it will be whatever your site is), and “Save”

• You have successfully created the web application. You will see a screen like this: copy the client ID and client secret, and paste them into the Embed Google Photos input options.

Enable the API library

• Click Enabled APIs & services and then + ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES.

• Search for Google Library API. You will see a screen like this

• Click the enable button.

Publishing the project

The last step before being able to use the client ID is to publish your project.

• Go to the “OAuth Consent Screen” in your Google Console, and click on the button to “Publish App”

• You will be prompted to push your app to production, which you can confirm:

• You will see that your app is now in Production. If you have just used a web application, you will also see that there is no verification required: