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Using Google Sheet's v4 JSON Endpoint with my API but still getting "Unauthorized" message

I am trying to get a simple JSON package from putting the URL of my Google spreadsheet so I can use it on my webpage; I am using my Google Cloud Console API as it is said on the documentation of the v4 Google API format, but I still get the error of "Unauthorized API"
Documentation: https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/guides/migration#v4-api
I am using this URL:
https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/SHEET_ID/values/Sheet1?key=API_KEY
My google sheet is set as published on the web. And also I am the creator of the google sheet.
What could I be missing? I am new to API's!
First Edit:
Answering the comment of ABDULLOKH MUKHAMMADJONOV
Here is the code I am using to make a GET request to the google sheet, you can see the Sheet ID is there, and also the API of the google cloud platform.
fetch("https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/1S652uS2FLVoZ1m3apb6R4H783v6GkV58HbQ6Idec5aY/values/Sheet1?key=AIzaSyCpFZ7mcqMNc6Q_bP6h1kCEfAi6c_fd8AM", {"method": "get"})
.then( (httpResponse) => {
if (httpResponse.ok) {
console.log(httpResponse.json());
return httpResponse.json();
} else {
return Promise.reject("Fetch did not succeed");
}
} )
.then(json => console.log(json.someKey))
.catch(err => console.log(err));
This code is from the Wix code editor.

The caller doesnt not have permissions
Means that the user you are authenticated as does not have permission to do what it is you are trying to do.
The method
https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/SHEET_ID/values/Sheet1?key=API_KEY
I believe is this method spreadsheets.values/get if you check the documentation you will notice that it requires authorization with one of these scopes
You appear to only be sending an api key. You need to be authorized to access that sheet. You cant access it with an API key that only grants access to public data.

Ok, so I investigated about the OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization for using Google Sheet's REST API. I added one of the needed scopes.
But I am stuck at the point on how to do the authorization process...
I am looking at this google documentation - How to use Google OAuth 2.0 authorization
But I haven't been able to get to the answer I seek. I am stuck at the part where it says "When your application needs access to user data, it asks Google for a particular scope of access." I do now know how to code this request or to do this request through the Insomnia software.
I am trying to do the GET request with a wix testing website, and also with Insomnia, but I haven't been able to achieve it.
These are the images from Insomnia, which tell me "Invalid authorization URL"
Insomnia's OAuth 2.0 authentication parameters
Insomnia's API Query parameter

How to fix SoundCloud player since API updates?

I've been working with this code that builds a custom SoundCloud player from hrefs to the tracks via their API:
https://codepen.io/nicholaspetersen/pen/yyVYMY
It was working fine until SoundCloud changed the way their API authorises as described here:
https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/security-updates-api
They said in that post:
Currently, to access the public resources of the platform, server-side integrations with our API only require a client_id in the URL’s query parameter. We’ll be strengthening our authorization here by making all public resources on the API only accessible to apps that have been authorized with the client_credentials grant. This will enable the app to capture both the access_token and the refresh_token to then fetch the resources from the API. Please note that the use of client_id will be deprecated and deleted soon (from July 2021). Developers should provide the Authentication header for all their requests to the SoundCloud API going forward.*
So, my understanding from the above is that I need to update the Authentication header as currently the code above is authenticating using this code:
// convert a SoundCloud resource URL to an API URL
scApiUrl = function(url, apiKey) {
var resolver = ( secureDocument || (/^https/i).test(url) ? 'https' : 'http') + '://api.' + domain + '/resolve?url=',
params = 'format=json&consumer_key=' + apiKey +'&callback=?';
However, I'm completely stuck as to how to do that... can anyone take a look at the JS in that codepen and let me know what I should be doing to fix the issue? I thought it might involve updating the code above to include a callback URL, but then that blog post says the use of client_id is now deprecated.
Any help / pointers hugely welcome.

After the SoundCloud security updates, the playlist on my website also stopped working. It wouldn't load any of the tracks in my playlist. I did a lot of research, finally realizing that I would need to register an app on SoundCloud to get access to the API. This was not possible due to the app registration page being down since early this year and with no promises of it ever going back up. So, I needed to find an alternative. Which brought me to the Widget API page.
https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/html5-widget
The Widget API allows you to externally control the widget that is embedded on your website through javascript. You set the width and height of the widget to 0 and it hides the widget. I tinkered with this on codepen this week and I am pleased that I now have a working playlist ready to be utilized on my website. See the link below.
https://codepen.io/mdcrowcodes/pen/eYEMyzY
enter code here

Can't Post to Facebook Page using JS

Okay what I want is to post to the Facebook Page as an Page(This is developing mode application only viewable to ne).
I have done with Facebook login.
So basically I ask for 2 permissions and they are
Manage Pages
Publish Pages
I can post to the page using the Facebook graph explorer tool but can't via my Javascript code.
Here is the code that I write using JS. This code is written inside a function.
FB.api('me/accounts', function(response){
token = response.data[0].access_token;
post_with_token(token);
});
function post_with_token(token){
var message = $('#post_body').html();
var page_id = 'page_id';
FB.api('page_id/feed', 'post',
{ message : message,
access_token : token},
function (response){
console.log(response);
});
The error object in the console says this
message: "(#200) The user hasn't authorized the application to perform this action"
Both the apps My and Graph explorer have the same permissions granted.Is any new permission to be asked. I am unable to figure out what exactly the problem is.Correct me if I am wrong anywhere.
I got the answer that I posted below but didn't got why I need additional permission.?

publish_pages has only been introduced with Graph API version 2.3.
Before that, publish_actions was used to allow posts on pages by the page as well – now with v2.3, they have made that into two separate permissions. publish_actions is for everything you publish as/in the name of a user, and publish_pages is for publishing as a page.
Graph API Explorer has API version 2.3 selected by default – that is why your call was successful there. Most likely, with your own API call from your JS code, you did not use v2.3, but specified a lower API version when initializing the JS SDK.
So just specify version: 'v2.3' in your FB.init parameters (see Basic Setup section in JS SDK docs), and it should work fine with publish_pages.

Okay I solved the problem . I have to ask for publish_actions permission also. So I asked through the Login Dialog and used the same code as above to post to the page!

The error implies exactly what it says. They've designer their API so it's not going to let you post without proper authorization first.
Facebook provides a guide on how to give proper authorization to your registered app

How do I avoid this X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN error when running the Google "Hello Analytics" API tutorial?

I've been trying to run the https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/articles/hello-analytics-api tutorial to get up and running with pulling data programmatically from Google Analytics.
I've copied the sample files exactly, but when I access them via localhost in Chrome, I get the following error in the JavaScript console, and get redirected to about:blank :
Refused to display 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?client_id=363192057646-fbj7q1oais...%2Flocalhost&response_type=token&state=327475409%7C0.2024869166&authuser=0' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'SAMEORIGIN'.
I've tried all manner of tweaks but can't get this error to go away. Hope someone can assist (or indeed just direct me to a simple, working, Javascript example for accessing the Google Analytics API.

Please check the Authorized JavaScript origins
url in the Google API console in your Oauth Settings. This must be where you are authorising the javascript.

I was having the same issue yesterday but then I realised I was using the wrong Client ID on my Credentials.
You should double check if you created a 'Client ID for web application' on APIs & auth > Credentials. And then use that Client ID.
I my case, I wrongly created a 'Service Account' first and used that Client ID. Then I realised the mistake and created a 'Web Application' and replaced the Client ID on hello_analytics_api_v3_auth.js (according to the tutorial on https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/articles/hello-analytics-api).
Btw, don't forget to create a Public API Access key.
EDIT: if you are using the google example fix the following function:
function handleAuthResult(authResult) {
if (authResult) {
gapi.client.load('analytics', 'v3', handleAuthorized);
} else {
handleUnauthorized();
}
}
On the if statement, change to:
if (authResult && !authResult.error)
So you would end up with:
function handleAuthResult(authResult) {
if (authResult && !authResult.error) {
gapi.client.load('analytics', 'v3', handleAuthorized);
} else {
handleUnauthorized();
}
}
My colleague found the bug and made a pull request to fix it. I hope that sorts the issue now. It sorted for me ;-)

I was having the same issue with a Fusion table example I found online.
None of the answers I found online were useful at all but I finally solved the issue as follows:
Open the dev console in Chrome which shows the error and the url it is trying to access, open the Url in a new tab.
The page shows this:
400. That’s an error.
Error: invalid_request
Parameter not allowed for this message type: client_secret
So I edited the code:
function auth(immediate) {
gapi.auth.authorize({
client_id: clientId,
<!--client_secret: clientSecret,-->
scope: scopes,
immediate: immediate
}, handleAuthResult);
}
Et voila (:

I had this error message many times before.
Most of the time I just did call Google API inconsistently.
To figure out, click the URL in the dev. console. A new window opens and you get a message like this:
400.
That’s an error.
Error: invalid_scope
Some requested scopes were invalid ...

I got it to work by clearning my cookies.
--Solution posted in this similar issue here: Google+ API "400 (Bad Request)" and "Refused to display ... in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'SAMEORIGIN'." errors

Display Google Analytics data on my web site?

I'm trying to figure out a way to display data collected from Google Analytics on my web site. I'm using NopCommerce, and I want to display this information/statistics in a view in the Admin Section.
There might be many ways to achieve this, and after searching the web I found some examples using JavaScript, but I couldn't find a good tutorial for this.
I have also looked into integrating Google Analytics with C#, and I found this example: http://biasecurities.com/2012/02/using-the-google-analytics-api-with-asp-net-mvc/#comment-1310
A demo project can be downloaded from GitHub here: https://github.com/jgeurts/Analytics-Example
However the demo project doesn't seem to work as the google URL (https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/accounts/default) is no longer in use.
As I'm using a MVC application it would be preferable to make this happen by applying the Google Analytics logic within a Controller and displaying it in a view. Or something like that.
Google provides a query tool to experiment with here, so it shouldn't be to hard extracting data from Google Analytics and display the data on the website: https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/explorer/
Has anyone been able to successfully display Google Analytics data on their website?

In case some one else is having the same problem here's what I did and it pretty much answers the question.
1.
Here is the basic code for a API client that access data from Google Analytics via your Google Service Account. https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/dotnet/guide/aaa_oauth#service_account
In order to make this application work you need to have several things ready before you start coding.
*Google Analytics Account - once registered a "tracker" code is generated for you to put on each webpage you want to track. You may not see any statistics right away and it can take up to 24h before any statistics are shown in the Google Analytics Dashboard.
An OAuth Authorisation (API-Key) with CLIENT_ID, CLIENT SECRET and EMAIL ADRESS (This is not your normal email but a service account email that is created for you when you make an OAuth Authorisation).
console.developers.google.com/
A serverkey, can also be created here: console.developers.google.com/.
You can also create a browser key, haven't bothered with that though and don't know what it does.
Finally you need a certificate key. Your application will only be able to access your Google Analytics account by using the key and credentials. The key is an encrypted p.12 file. You can find the key in https://code.google.com/apis/console/.
Here is a guide for the key: http://www.pimcore.org/wiki/display/PIMCORE/Setup+Google+Analytics+Reporting+with+OAuth2+Service+Accounts+(since+1.4.6)
2.
Now that you have all keys and credentials you need it is time to start looking at the code I linked in "1". Here is the basic for it again: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/dotnet/guide/aaa_oauth#service_account
Create a console application and implement the code above.
Note: your not making a "Google Plus service" so you have to change those parts for "AnalyticsService". Go to manage nuget and install packages:
Google Apis Core Library
Google Apis Client Library
Google Apis Auth Client Library
Google Apis Analytics.v3 Library
Google GData Client (This provides properties used to query data, metrics, demensions etc)
Google GData Extensions Library
Analytics
Might forgot something but here are the namespaces I use:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2;
using Google.Apis.Services;
using Google.Apis.Analytics.v3;
3
Finally, here's is some of my code. Note I'm creating a new Analytics as supposed to "new ServiceAccountCredentials" as in the code from Google. That's the main difference:
Retrieve data from Google Analytics API with .NET, multiple metrics?
With this I'm able to access and query data from Google Analytics account. The best part is that you don't have to log in to Google for this as the key and credentials gives you access to the account data directly.
I will migrate this code to MVC now I might make an update later on for how to implement this Analytics client in Mvc.

This document explains how to get Google Access tokens and use them to get Google Analytics data to be displayed in our websites.
Example: A live example is available in
https://newtonjoshua.com
Note: Use the same Gmail account for all the below steps.
STEP 1: Set Up Google Analytics
Follow the below steps to set up Google Analytics on your website
Sign in to your Analytics account.
Select the Admin tab.
Select an account from the drop-down menu in the ACCOUNT column.
Select a property from the drop-down menu in the PROPERTY column.
Under PROPERTY, click Tracking Info -> Tracking Code.
To collect data, you must copy and paste the Analytics tracking code
into the source code on every web page you wish to track.
Once you have the JavaScript tracking code snippet for your
property, copy the snippet exactly without editing it.
Paste your tracking code snippet (unaltered, in its entirety) before
the closing </head> tag on every web page on your site you wish to
track.
Once you have successfully installed Analytics tracking, it may take
up to 24 hours for data such as traffic referral information, user
characteristics, and browsing information to appear in your reports
Refer to:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080?hl=en
https://analytics.google.com
STEP 2: Get Tokens
Google Project:
To create a Google Cloud Platform project, open the Google Developers Console (https://console.developers.google.com) and click Create Project.
Enable OAuth 2.0 API access:
Your application will need to access user data and contact other Google services on your behalf. Use OAuth 2.0 to grant your app API access.
To enable that, you need a client ID:
Open the Google API Console Credentials page (https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials).
From the project, drop-down and select your project.
Select Create credentials and choose OAuth client ID.
Under Application type, select Web application, enter a Name and
set the Restrictions by entering JavaScript origins, Redirect URIs to point the website where you are planning to display the data, and then click Create.
Make note of the OAuth 2.0 client_id and client_secret. You will need them to configure the UI.
Get Authorization code:
Enter in browser:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly&response_type=code&client_id={{
client_id}}&redirect_uri={{redirect_uri }}
&approval_prompt=force&access_type=offline
You will get redirected to
{{redirect_uri }}?code=={{authorization_code}}#
Get Refresh Token:
Send a POST request, possibly via a REST console to
https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/token?code={{authorization_code}}
&client_id={{client_id}}&client_secret={{client_secret}}
&redirect_uri={{redirect_uri }}&grant_type=authorization_code
You will get a JSON response with
{"refresh_token": refresh_token}
You can use the refresh token to get access token to access to Google APIs.
Get the Access Token:
Send a POST request to,
https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/token?client_id={{client_id}}
&client_secret={{client_id}}
&grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token={{refresh_token}}
You will get a JSON with access_token in the response.
{access_token: {{access_token}}}
Example:
var access_token = '';
function getAccessToken(){
$.post('https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/token', {
client_id: {{client_id}},
client_secret: {{client_secret}},
grant_type: 'refresh_token',
refresh_token: {{refresh_token}}
}, function (data, status) {
if (status === 'success') {
access_token = data.access_token;
// Do something eith the access_token
}
else {
console.error(status);
}
});
}
Check Token validity:
Send a POST request to,
https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/tokeninfo?access_token={{access_token}}
Example:
function checkValidity() {
$.post('https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/tokeninfo', {
access_token:{{access_token}}
}).done(function (data, status) {
if (status === 'success') {
console.debug(data.expires_in);
var check = false;
check = data.hasOwnProperty('expires_in');
if (check) {
// Token is valid
}
if (!check) {
getAccessToken();
}
}
else {
console.debug(status);
}
})
.fail(function (data) {
console.error(data);
getAccessToken();
});
}
Step 3: Fetch Data
Embed API:
The GA Embed API is a JavaScript library that allows you to easily create and embed your GA dashboard on your website in a matter of minutes.
Refer to https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/embed/v1/getting-started.
Query Explorer:
Visit Embed API Query Explorer and authorize
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer/
Select the view for which you want to fetch the data.
Select the required metrics and dimensions.
Example:
Get Country Data (I want to know the number of users accessing my website from each country).
To get that data, select the metrics as 'users' and the dimensions as 'country'.
Click on Run Query.
You will find the analytics data for the query displayed in a table.
Copy the API Query URI. And add access_token={{access_token}} to the URI.
Example:
https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids={{ids}}&start-date=2015-07-01&end-date=today&metrics=ga%3Ausers&dimensions=ga%3Acountry&access_token={{access_token}}
Send POST request to the URIs to get the data in your browser.
Example:
function gaGetCountry() {
$.get('https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?' +
'ids={{ids}}' +
'start-date=2015-07-01&' +
'end-date=today&' +
'metrics=ga%3Ausers&' +
'dimensions=ga%3Acountry&' +
'sort=ga%3Ausers&' +
'filters=ga%3Ausers%3E10&' +
'max-results=50' +
'&access_token=' + {{access_token}},
function (data, status) {
if (status === 'success') {
// Display the Data
drawRegionsMap(data.rows);
} else {
console.debug(status);
}
});
}
Step 4: Display Data
Now we have gathered the data. Finally we have to display them on our website.
"Display live data on your site" is the title of Google Charts. And that is what we are going to do.
Refer to https://developers.google.com/chart/.
The following example will draw a GeoChart in the div with id='countryChart'.
// Draw country chart
function drawRegionsMap(data) {
var head = data[0];
head[0] = 'Country';
head[1] = 'Users';
for (var i = 1; i < data.length; i++) {
var d = data[i];
d[1] = Number(d[1]);
}
var chartData = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable(data);
var options = {
title: 'My Website is viewed from,',
domain: '{{Country Code eg: IN for India}}',
tooltip: {
textStyle: {
color: 'navy'
},
showColorCode: true
},
legend: {
textStyle: {
color: 'navy',
fontSize: 12
}
},
colorAxis: {
colors: ['#00FFFF', '#0000FF']
}
};
var chart = new google.visualization.GeoChart(document.getElementById('countryChart'));
chart.draw(chartData, options);
}
Refer to https://newtonjoshua.com to view the above example in action.

I'd recommend to use the new Google APIs Client Library for .NET (currently in beta). Information about the Analytics API can be found here. Note that the Client Library for .NET (google-api-dotnet-client) supersedes the .NET library for the Google Data API (google-gdata).
Unfortunately, there is no sample code available yet from Google (see this issue) but this question on SO should help.
If you don't want to login every time you access Analytics data, you can use OAuth 2.0 authorization with offline access. You have to grant initial access to your web application, though. This requires you to login once but you can use a refresh token later on.

To date, the easiest solution is to create a report of your Google Analytics data in Google Data Studio (free, native connector to GA), and share that report to embed in an <iframe>
See details on https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7450249?hl=en
You get
flexible vizualisation
security and control on the data being shared
0 code nor maintenance
result is being cached for better performance

I spent a couple of days trawling the Internet to get some sample ASP.NET code with no luck. I used Koffe14's method for authentication, and also Linda Lawton's excellent ASP.NET analytics example.
I've posted the code on my website. It's not MVC, but it might help other people who need to get data from Google analytics into an ASP.NET web page using the v3 Google API.

Check out embeddedanalytics.com (disclaimer - I work with them).
This is a simple yet powerful solution geared for people that don't want deal with learning the GA API and then having to link it to visualization (e.g. charts/graphs).
Basically define your charts and embed a snippet of code where you want the chart to show. We also support mechanisms so that it is easy to integrate into a custom built CMS or other web portal.