manually refreshing a token

I’m having trouble refreshing tokens. I keep getting { [Error: internal_failure] code: 500 } for the error. The refreshToken I’m supplying is valid. I am setting the credentials before calling this method:

oAuth2Client.refreshAccessToken(function(err, tokens) {
   console.log(err, tokens);
});

[JustinBeckwith]

Greetings folks! There’s a great example of refreshing the access token here: https://github.com/google/google-auth-library-nodejs/blob/master/examples/refreshAccessToken.js

If you still have trouble, let us know!

[janvda]

@bcoe thanks for the response

My issue:

I would like to use the google photos API. For this I am using 1/ https://github.com/roopakv/google-photos + 2/ for the google authentication I am using this library (= https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client).

I don’t know how I can use 2/ to refresh the access token so that I can pass that to 1/. The problem with 2/ is that it is automatically refreshing the access token when using the google APIs provided by 2/ but I am not using any of the google APIs provided by 2/.

Note also that 2/ doesn’t provide the google photos API which is the only API I want to use !