My scenario:
Created a Service account for google calendar - say MasterAccount.
Have another SlaveAccount and shared the calendar via (Shared: Edit settings) with MasterAccount.
I am getting access denied error when I use ServiceAccount to access SlaveAccount shared calendar.
using Google.Apis.Calendar.v3;
using Google.Apis.Calendar.v3.Data;
How can I use service account to access another account?
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When trying to pull GA4 data from the api, it says the user doesn't have permission. I'm having no issues with the UA accounts.
However, my GA4 accounts are both:
tied to the same account as my Universal accounts
the api service email account is also attached to those account.
I'm wondering if perhaps the property id isn't what i use for ga4, as I did for the Univsal code.
Has anyone had this issue?
I have tried using both the property ID, the Stream ID and the Measurement ID with no luck.
user doesn't have permission
means exactly that the user you are authenticating with does not have permission to access the google analytics account you are trying to access.
You need to go into the GA4 account via the admin section on the website and grant it access
Its under property and access management, add the service account in there.
I've been looking into Google Calendar API as a way to manage calendar/event information for my application. It looks like Google Calendar API is setup to connect to a Google user's account. After you have access to the user's account you can add/update/manipulate calendar and event information. I want this same functionality but on a "user account" that is virtual.. not owned by a real user but an account created specific to my application to use. Is this possible?
The docs mention Google will show a consent page to the user to integrate with the users calendar, how would I go about coding the authentication for my calendar if I (the application) owns the account and calendar?
You could use a service account, which will belong to a project in your dev console, and you can give it credentials to access its own calendar.
See Using OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs
I am currently writing an online-booking-module and I want to store events (beside in the database) in a owned google-calendar (this calendar is then added to the responsible employee in outlook).
My idea was just to give the API my auth-data and the calendar-id and then being able to insert and delete events.
The calendar must be private, not public!
Now I see it is more designed to access user's calenders getting their permission etc...
Answer:
Yes, you can authenticate the application as yourself and add the events to a private calendar owned by you.
More Information:
Once the application has been published and contains your credentials and token, there will be no issue running the Events add Calendar API method as you, regardless of who runs the program.
Other option:
Alternatively, you could create a Service account to impersonate your account and run the calendar API queries, though you would need to provide the Service Account with access to your private Google Calendar.
References:
Google Calendar API - Events: insert
Authorizing Requests to the Google Calendar API
Google Developer Admin Console
Google Cloud - Service Accounts
Understanding Service Accounts
Creating and Managing Service Accounts
Creating and Managing Service Account Keys
Granting Roles to Service Accounts
I want to be able to access other users Google Calendars through a service account so I am not prompted for authorization. I am doing this in a simple .net c# console app. When I attempt to create my credentials in the Google API Manager, it gives me the following alert when I specify I am using a non UI app and I want to access User Data. Isn't the purpose of using the service account to access other users data without a UI?
"User data cannot be accessed from a platform without a UI because it requires user interaction for sign-in."
You may have misunderstood the meaning of using a service account to impersonate a user. To help you with Authentication, you might want to check this tutorial : Google Calendar API Authentication with C# by Daimto.
Things to take note of :
To be able to access other calendars by service account, users who own the calendar should share it to the service account.
To impersonate a user, you must know the email address.
From the tutorial:
If you are only accessing data that you own there is no reason to ask a user for permission to access it. You can use a Service account. (Privacy)
If you want to be able to access data owned by someone else you will need to be authenticated.
Hope this helps!
I'm using oauth to authenticate in google calendar, but i'm trying to send user and password to avoid open the authentication popup.
I'ts like automatic authentication.
Is it possible?
Thanks.
Since you want your application to always create events in a single calendar that is under your control, here is how I would do it:
Create a service account in Google Cloud Console - recent instructions on how to do so can be found here: google oauth2 how to get private key for service account
Share your calendar with that service account: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en
Write your code to use the service account credentials (private key downloaded in step 1).
I didn't post any sample code, as I'm not sure what language you are using. The following has some discussion of this use-case in PHP: Access Google calendar events from with service account: { "error" : "access_denied" }. No google apps