Method: projects.secrets.versions.access

Accesses a SecretVersion. This call returns the secret data.

projects/*/secrets/*/versions/latest is an alias to the latest SecretVersion.

HTTP request

GET https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1beta1/{name=projects/*/secrets/*/versions/*}:access

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
name

string

Required. The resource name of the SecretVersion in the format projects/*/secrets/*/versions/*.

Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:

  • secretmanager.versions.access

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

Response message for SecretManagerService.AccessSecretVersion.

JSON representation 
{
  "name": string,
  "payload": {
    object (SecretPayload)
  }
}
Fields
name

string

The resource name of the SecretVersion in the format projects/*/secrets/*/versions/*.
payload

object (SecretPayload)

Secret payload

Authorization Scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.