/api/v2/users/{id} returns google accessToken not refreshToken?

[tyf]

Hey there @dean2 !

A bit old but this post has some good information on this topic:

Store and retrieve Google Refresh token

Please ignore my previous answer, as it only applies when you want to login with Google, but in your case you need to also call the Google APIs (such as calendar). Then of course, you’d need to deal with the Google tokens directly. So, sorry about the confusion here. So according to the docs, for Google, you would need to add access_type: offline to the /authorize request: Call an Identity Provider API : For certain Identity Providers, Auth0 will store a Refresh Token which you can use to ob…

Long story short, you need to pass the parameter access_type=offline, as well the connection_scope parameter with required scopes, when calling the Auth0 /authorize endpoint.

@dean2

Will auth0 know to call out to google to get a new access token if the previous one expired.

Auth0 doesn’t check for the expiration of tokens nor refresh them.

Identity Provider Access Tokens