Normally, when using googleapis
in Node.js, the client will be unauthenticated by default (unlike Google Cloud JS libraries, which automatically picks up the service account).
To use a service account with googleapis
, some configuration has to be done:
import { google } from 'googleapis'
const googleAuth = new google.auth.GoogleAuth({
// If `keyFile` is omitted, then the client will look for the
// `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS` environment variable.
keyFile: './.private/credentials/service-account.json',
// Set up the scopes needed to access the APIs.
scopes: ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase'],
})
google.options({ auth: googleAuth })