Google APIs#
Google developer account#
First, you need to create an account: Google developers
Google APIs Explorer#
The Google APIs Explorer is a tool available on most REST API reference documentation pages that lets you try Google API methods without writing code:
We will use Google’s Drive API v3 as an example.
Google Drive API v3#
We want to create a Python command-line application that makes requests to the Drive API by using OAuth 2.0 for authorization.
Set up Anaconda environment#
First we need to setup a new Anaconda environment where we will use pip to install packages (not conda):
conda create -n drive python=3.9 pip
Install the Google client library#
Activate your environment:
conda activate drive
Install some libraries for Python:
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib googleapiclient pandas
Configure the OAuth consent screen#
When you use OAuth 2.0 for authorization, Google displays a consent screen to the user including a summary of your project, its policies, and the requested authorization scopes of access.
Note
If you don’t know required consent screen information, you can use placeholder information.
Follow these instruction: Configure OAuth consent & register your app
Python quickstart#
Next, go to the Python quickstart and complete the instructions for step 1, 3, 4 and 5:
Set up your environment (choose user type external)
Install the client library (we already completed this step)
Set up the sample.
Run the sample.
Important note:
Warning
Since our app’s publishing status is in ‘Testing’, the token will last for 2 weeks only. This means after two weeks, you have to delete the file token.jsonand run this script again, to generate a new token.