My Python (3.6.7) code uses oauth2client to access Google Photos APIs. It successfully authenticates, but when it tries to access the Google Photos albums, it seems to be using the username as the project_id.
from __future__ import print_function
from apiclient.discovery import build
from httplib2 import Http
from oauth2client import file, client, tools
# Setup the Photo v1 API
SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly'
store = file.Storage('credentials.json')
creds = store.get()
if not creds or creds.invalid:
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets('scripts/client_id.json', SCOPES)
creds = tools.run_flow(flow, store)
service = build('photoslibrary', 'v1', http=creds.authorize(Http()))
# Call the Photo v1 API
results = service.albums().list(
pageSize=10, fields="nextPageToken,albums(id,title)").execute()
items = results.get('albums', [])
if not items:
print('No albums found.')
else:
print('Albums:')
for item in items:
print('{0} ({1})'.format(item['title'].encode('utf8'), item['id']))
When executing the above code, it prompts me the auth page. When I successfully authenticate, it shows me the following error:
HttpError 403 when requesting {URL} returned "Photos Library API has not been used in project 123456 before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/photoslibrary.googleapis.com/overview?project=123456 then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry.">
Interestingly, the number in bold 123456 (obviously changed) is actually the first part of the client_id found in the client_id.json
But the project_id looks something like this: test1-235515
So what I got from this error is that the oauth2client client is passing the client_id instead of the project_id. So even though I have enabled the Photos API, it will never access it correctly.
Please help with this error. How can I manually change the project_id?
