Consuming API Workspace for Developers

Question

I'm trying to consume Google's Workspace APIs, but I'm having extreme difficulty with the documentation to create my first code, following the first steps I did the following

1. I created a project within Google Cloud

2. I enabled the Admin SDK API

3. I created a service account

4. I created a key in Json format

5. in the Workspace dashboard under delegation across domain I added the unique id and the following scope

   [ 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/apps.order', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/siteverification', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/directory.readonly', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.reports.usage.readonly', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.reports.audit.readonly', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.send' ] I would like to use the document from the link https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/reports/reference/rest to consult the activities of a specific user but I can't find an example code to consume this API using these credentials in Python , I'm new in this area and would like some help.

Generate a token and when I tried to use an api it didn't work and it was unauthorized, below is the code I used

    import requests
url = "https://admin.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/[email protected]/applications/calendar"
payload = ""
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer xptoz_exemple_test=PHQbcdddx3xxxxxxxxxxxxddddddddd"}
response = requests.request("GET", url, data=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)

Answer 1

You are getting unauthorized because the service account doesn't have permission to do what ever it is you are trying to do. To get permission you need to be using the proper scope, and the service account needs to not only have permission to use this scope but it must have delegated to a user on the domain that has access to the data.

First you need to be sure that your authorization code is delegating to a user on your domain.

#!/usr/bin/python

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


scopes = [            'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.reports.usage.readonly'        ]

credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('/path/to/my/key.json', scopes)
delegated_credentials = credentials.create_delegated('[email protected]')

http_auth = credentials.authorize(Http())

service = build('admin', 'directory_v1', credentials=creds)

Then you should consider having a look at Python quickstart the auth in this is set up to use an installed app. However the rest of the code should show you how to use the Client library rather then sending all the requests manually like you are now.