File not found: "client_secret.json"

[Morgan Allen]

I'm following the Python quick start guide and am running into this issue.

What am I doing wrong? 

Dub-Pro:Desktop morganvallen$ python quick_start.py

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "quick_start.py", line 71, in <module>

    main()

  File "quick_start.py", line 55, in main

    credentials = get_credentials()

  File "quick_start.py", line 40, in get_credentials

    flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(CLIENT_SECRET_FILE, SCOPES)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/util.py", line 140, in positional_wrapper

    return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/client.py", line 2217, in flow_from_clientsecrets

    cache=cache)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/clientsecrets.py", line 165, in loadfile

    return _loadfile(filename)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/clientsecrets.py", line 125, in _loadfile

    raise InvalidClientSecretsError('File not found: "%s"' % filename)

oauth2client.clientsecrets.InvalidClientSecretsError: File not found: "client_secret.json"

[Nathaniel Manista]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Morgan Allen <morgan...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm following the Python quick start guide and am running into this issue.

Which Python quick start guide? There are many; link us to the one you are following?

Do you see anything instructing you that you must have this file, or how to create it?

-N

[Carlos Dominguez]

Simple: when you downloaded the JSON file as per the quick start instructions, it downloads it as client_secretXXXXXXX.json, where XXXXXXXX is a string of numbers and letters. Just rename this file to client_secret.json, or rewrite the code so that it will look for the filename.