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

1. 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.

2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

3. Enable the Cloud Identity API.

   Enable the API

4. Create a service account:

   1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Create service account page.

      Go to Create service account
   2. Select your project.

   3. 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.

   4. Click Create and continue.

   5. Grant the Project > Owner role to the service account.

      To grant the role, find the Select a role list, then select Project > Owner.

      Note: The Role field affects which resources the service account can access in your project. You can revoke these roles or grant additional roles later. In production environments, do not grant the Owner, Editor, or Viewer roles. Instead, grant a predefined role or custom role that meets your needs.
   6. Click Continue.

   7. Click Done to finish creating the service account.

      Do not close your browser window. You will use it in the next step.

5. Create a service account key:

   1. In the Google Cloud console, click the email address for the service account that you created.
   2. Click Keys.
   3. Click Add key, and then click Create new key.
   4. Click Create. A JSON key file is downloaded to your computer.
   5. Click Close.

6. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

7. Enable the Cloud Identity API.

   Enable the API

8. Create a service account:

   1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Create service account page.

      Go to Create service account
   2. Select your project.

   3. 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.

   4. Click Create and continue.

   5. Grant the Project > Owner role to the service account.

      To grant the role, find the Select a role list, then select Project > Owner.

      Note: The Role field affects which resources the service account can access in your project. You can revoke these roles or grant additional roles later. In production environments, do not grant the Owner, Editor, or Viewer roles. Instead, grant a predefined role or custom role that meets your needs.
   6. Click Continue.

   7. Click Done to finish creating the service account.

      Do not close your browser window. You will use it in the next step.

9. Create a service account key:

   1. In the Google Cloud console, click the email address for the service account that you created.
   2. Click Keys.
   3. Click Add key, and then click Create new key.
   4. Click Create. A JSON key file is downloaded to your computer.
   5. 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.

Note: Because domain-wide delegation works by allowing the service account to impersonate an admin user, audit logs will show any service account actions as the user.

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('[e-mail]')

  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.