Google access token expiration time

Question

When I obtain an access token from the Google API  it comes with an expires in value   According to the documentation  this value indicates  The remaining lifetime of the access token    What are the units of this value

User · Answer

From Google OAuth2 0 for Client documentation    expires in  -- The number of seconds left before the token becomes invalid

User · Answer

Since there is no accepted answer I will try to answer this one    s  - seconds

User · Answer

Have a look at  https   developers google com accounts docs OAuth2UserAgent handlingtheresponse  It says      Other parameters included in the response include expires in and   token type  These parameters describe the lifetime of the token in   seconds

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The spec says seconds   http   tools ietf org html draft-ietf-oauth-v2-22 section-4 2 2  expires in     OPTIONAL   The lifetime in seconds of the access token   For     example  the value  3600  denotes that the access token will     expire in one hour from the time the response was generated    I agree with OP that it s careless for Google to not document this

[oauth-2.0] Google access token expiration time

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