npm: How to initalize AndroidPublisher from googleapis

Question

How can I initialize the Android publisher to access the google play developer API? I know that I can use the raw googleapis package but my server is running out of memory when importing that package thus I used the @googleapis/androidpublisher package the only I need.

I don't know how to pass proper 'auth' to the publisher so I can authenticate adequately. I am using the Service account credentials file as mentioned in the google readme:

This code does not work.

import { androidpublisher_v3 as AndroidPublisherApi } from "@googleapis/androidpublisher";
import credentials from "../assets/google-play-console-service-account.json";

this.androidPublisher = new AndroidPublisherApi.Androidpublisher({
  auth: new GoogleAuth(
    {
      credentials, // Pass in the 'google-play-console-service-account.json' credentials
      scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher"],
    })
});

The expected type comes from property 'auth' which is declared here on type 'GlobalOptions'

Type 'GoogleAuth' is not assignable to type 'string | BaseExternalAccountClient | GoogleAuth | OAuth2Client | undefined'. Type 'GoogleAuth' is not assignable to type 'GoogleAuth'. Types have separate declarations of a private property 'checkIsGCE'

Answer 1

This needs to be done as mentioned here: https://googleapis.dev/nodejs/googleapis/latest/tasks/

const publisher = require("@googleapis/androidpublisher");

const auth = new publisher.auth.GoogleAuth({
  keyFilename: './api/assets/google-play-console-service-account.json',
  // Scopes can be specified either as an array or as a single, space-delimited string.
  scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher"]
});
this.androidPublisher = new publisher.androidpublisher_v3.Androidpublisher({ auth: auth })