📅 2024-12-12 — Session: Configured OAuth for n8n with Gmail integration
🕒 23:30–23:55
🏷️ Labels: Oauth, N8N, Gmail, Google Api, Troubleshooting
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to troubleshoot and configure OAuth authentication for n8n using Gmail, ensuring seamless API integration and resolving credential issues.
Key Activities
- Troubleshooting OAuth Setup: Addressed common OAuth setup problems in n8n, focusing on redirect errors, defining scopes, and adding test users.
- Configuring OAuth with Gmail: Detailed setup process in Google Cloud Console and n8n, including configuration and error resolution.
- Redirect URI Setup: Established correct Authorized Redirect URIs for local development using Flask and ngrok.
- Credential Issue Resolution: Validated scopes, updated redirect URIs, and configured credentials to resolve mismatches in Google OAuth.
- Flask App Integration: Verified Flask app in development mode, integrated with n8n for OAuth, and prepared for deployment to Google App Engine.
Achievements
- Successfully configured OAuth authentication for n8n with Gmail, resolving key credential issues and ensuring proper integration with Google APIs.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of the OAuth setup in a production environment to ensure robustness and address any additional issues that may arise.