Google OAuth using domain wide delegation and service account
I am trying to make google drive API calls using domain wide delegation by using a service account. I can get the authentication working but not the drive api calls. Error: File not found when creating a file in drive
Also before domain wide delegation I made it to work by sharing a drive folder with the service account. But now I want it to work without sharing.
I think i need to do some setServiceAccount stuff somewhere. Not sure where that would happen.
const {google} = require('googleapis');
const auth = new google.auth.JWT(
client_email, null,
privateKey, ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive']
);
const drive = google.drive({version: "v3", auth});
//drive.files.create({});
Solution 1:
Answer:
You need to pass your Service Account private key obtained from the GCP console to your JWT Client, and specify which user you wish to impersonate as a subject
.
Code:
After getting your private key, you need to pass this into your JWT Client before authorisation:
let google = require('googleapis');
let privateKey = require("./privatekey.json");
var jwtClient = new google.auth.JWT({
email: privateKey.client_email,
key: privateKey.private_key,
scopes: ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'],
subject: '[email protected]'
});
jwtClient.authorize(function (error, tokens) {
if (error) {
console.log(error);
return;
}
else {
console.log("Successfully connected!");
}
});
Then you can do as you wish with the Drive API as the service account.