Accessing Google APIs with Python

2016-06-03 Discuss

Links

• https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/quickstart/python#prerequisites
• https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/reference/users/list#try-it
• http://oauth2client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/source/oauth2client.service_account.html
• https://github.com/google/oauth2client/issues/401
• https://github.com/google/oauth2client/issues/418
• https://github.com/google/oauth2client/pull/420

Method

import httplib2
import secure_storage
from apiclient.discovery import build
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials

client_email = '...@developer.gserviceaccount.com'
scopes = [
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user.readonly',
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.group.readonly',
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/apps.groups.settings'
]
uname = '...@example.com'
fname = '/.../private_key.p12'

creds = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_p12_keyfile(client_email, fname, scopes=scopes)
delegated_creds = creds.create_delegated(uname)

http_auth = delegated_creds.authorize(httplib2.Http())
service = build('admin', 'directory_v1', http=http_auth)
service.users().list(domain='example.com', maxResults=10, orderBy='email').execute()
service.groups().list(domain='example.com', maxResults=10).execute()