how to authenticate into google account service from web application for using google data

Question

Can some body please tell me the way to access the google service such as the user feed items in google reader through the web application using username and password. I do not want the user to authenticate. I want the solution in ASP.net.

There is already a solution avaible in Python at http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=303

But I do not know python.

Answer 1

The python code doesn't do what you think. It requires a user to already be logged on.

See the link in the article you linked to here: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig.html#Requiring_Login_or_Administrator_Status

The user will have to authenticate at some point.

Answer 2

Hi Parker,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I think you are right. I do not want the client authentication.

Probably I need to do something similar to what is posted at http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/auth.html

But this requires the user to enter their user name and password. Instead I always want to use my user name and password. After authentication, I would like to get my feed items in the Google reader through my program.

Can you please or someone else point me in the right direction?

Thanks, Mohan.