Setting up the User Invitation API
This page explains how to set up the Cloud Identity User Invitation API.
Enabling the API and setting up credentials
- Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
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In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.
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Enable the Cloud Identity API.
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Create a service account:
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In the Google Cloud console, go to the Create service account page.
Go to Create service account - Select your project.
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In the Service account name field, enter a name. The Google Cloud console fills in the Service account ID field based on this name.
In the Service account description field, enter a description. For example,
Service account for quickstart
. - Click Create and continue.
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Grant the Project > Owner role to the service account.
To grant the role, find the Select a role list, then select Project > Owner.
- Click Continue.
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Click Done to finish creating the service account.
Do not close your browser window. You will use it in the next step.
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Create a service account key:
- In the Google Cloud console, click the email address for the service account that you created.
- Click Keys.
- Click Add key, and then click Create new key.
- Click Create. A JSON key file is downloaded to your computer.
- Click Close.
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In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.
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Enable the Cloud Identity API.
-
Create a service account:
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In the Google Cloud console, go to the Create service account page.
Go to Create service account - Select your project.
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In the Service account name field, enter a name. The Google Cloud console fills in the Service account ID field based on this name.
In the Service account description field, enter a description. For example,
Service account for quickstart
. - Click Create and continue.
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Grant the Project > Owner role to the service account.
To grant the role, find the Select a role list, then select Project > Owner.
- Click Continue.
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Click Done to finish creating the service account.
Do not close your browser window. You will use it in the next step.
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Create a service account key:
- In the Google Cloud console, click the email address for the service account that you created.
- Click Keys.
- Click Add key, and then click Create new key.
- Click Create. A JSON key file is downloaded to your computer.
- Click Close.
Installing the Python client library
To install the Python client library, run the following command:
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth \
google-auth-oauthlib google-auth-httplib2
For more on setting up your Python development environment, refer to the Python Development Environment Setup Guide.
Authenticating as a service account with domain-wide delegation
If you want to provide an account with domain-wide privileges so it can manage user invitations on behalf of admins, you should authenticate as a service account and then grant it the domain-wide privileges.
See Delegate domain-wide authority to your service account for instructions. You need to provide the following scope to authorize the service account:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-identity.userinvitations
Instantiating a client
The following example shows how to instantiate a client using service account credentials. To authenticate as an end-user instead, replace the credential object from the service account with the credential you obtained earlier in Using OAuth 2.0 for web server applications.
Python
from google.oauth2 import service_account
import googleapiclient.discovery
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-identity.userinvitations']
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE = '/path/to/service-account-file.json'
def create_service():
credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE, scopes=SCOPES)
delegated_credentials = credentials.with_subject('user@altostrat.com')
service_name = 'cloudidentity'
api_version = 'v1'
service = googleapiclient.discovery.build(
service_name,
api_version,
credentials=delegated_credentials)
return service
You can now begin making calls to the User Invitation API.