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December 16, 2025, 10:31pm
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i am having issues with OAUTH with google docs, i have checked it multiple times, everything is correct, but its says this:There was a problem generating the authorization URL
I have encountered this now, and also i went and tried to check with google sheets as well, when i press on sign in with Google it says exactly the same (but i had already signed in tho) idk why this happening
There was a known issue with Google credentials. Try upgrading your instance to the lastest stable project (at least the 2.1.4)
Here’s the link to github related to this google issue
opened 09:10PM - 25 Dec 25 UTC
closed 11:25PM - 26 Dec 25 UTC
status:in-linear
closed:cant-reproduce
## When I create a new credential for Gmail an error is coming
## What is the … error message (if any)?
OAuth Authorization Error
There was a problem generating the authorization URL
Unexpected token 'S', "Salted__zh"... is not valid JSON
## Please share your workflow/screenshots/recording
create credential/ clicking gmail/ error coming
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## Share the output returned by the last node
## Debug info
### core
- n8nVersion: 2.1.0
- platform: docker (cloud)
- nodeJsVersion: 22.21.1
- nodeEnv: production
- database: sqlite
- executionMode: regular
- concurrency: 20
- license: enterprise (sandbox)
### storage
- success: all
- error: all
- progress: false
- manual: true
- binaryMode: filesystem
### pruning
- enabled: true
- maxAge: 720 hours
- maxCount: 25000 executions
### client
- userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; intel mac os x 10_15_7) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/143.0.0.0 safari/537.36
- isTouchDevice: false
Generated at: 2025-12-25T21:08:12.810Z}
Hope this helps!
