issue with authorizing credentials

I am running the basic authentication process (after generating the OAuth credentials outlined in the documentation: https://gspread.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2.html

Here is my code for reference:

import gspread
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials

scope = ['https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds',
         'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive']

credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('my_creds-06044a753234.json', scope)

gc = gspread.authorize(credentials)

wks = gc.open("My Sheet").sheet1

I am receiving a type error, saying the argument for the authorize function in my code is a string. Has anyone seen this issue? I was not able to find any other issues where this was replicated. I am using python 3.7 and am running this code on python anywhere: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/ Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Full Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/data/DTR_GoogleSheets/test.py", line 9, in <module>
    gc = gspread.authorize(credentials)
  File "/home/data/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gspread/__init__.py", line 38, in authorize
    client.login()
  File "/home/data/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gspread/client.py", line 51, in login
    self.auth.refresh(http)
  File "/home/data/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/oauth2client/client.py", line 545, in refresh
    self._refresh(http)
  File "/home/data/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/oauth2client/client.py", line 749, in _refresh
    self._do_refresh_request(http)
  File "/home/data/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/oauth2client/client.py", line 780, in _do_refresh_request
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/home/data/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/oauth2client/transport.py", line 282, in request
    connection_type=connection_type)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1957, in request
    cachekey,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1622, in _request
    conn, request_uri, method, body, headers
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1528, in _conn_request
    conn.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1309, in connect
    sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/socks.py", line 406, in connect
    self.__negotiatehttp(destpair[0],destpair[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/socks.py", line 357, in __negotiatehttp
    while resp.find("\r\n\r\n")==-1:
TypeError: argument should be integer or bytes-like object, not 'str'

[kyluca]

Hey all, I was having similar OAuth issues when trying to update some old code (using gspread==0.6.2) to use the latest versions (gspread>=3.0.0) and I believe it might be the same solution required here. The scopes OP is using were the same as mine, https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds, which worked for old versions of the Google Sheets API. But now we should be using v4 of the Google Sheets API with the correct scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.

As per the Google Sheets API docs: https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets/get#authorization-scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.readonly

Hope that helps someone else too.

TL;DR: Change https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds to https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets

[msvanberg]

My issue was fixed by running pip3.7 install --user --force-reinstall PySocks in a Bash console on the platform.