Today we’re going to learn how to generate a Service Account account that will serve us for verifying purchases or generating an authentication token in Google.
The first thing we’ll do is go to https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts/create
We create an account:
We choose the Role and put EDITOR (very important).
We press once created, click on Adminstrator keys:
We click now on create new key
You choose JSON.
We copy that JSON and bring it to our back.
To obtain the access token, we will use this function
# Get access token (duration 1 hour) # Service Account JSON path SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE = "service-account.json" # Google Play Developer API scope SCOPES = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher"] def get_access_token(): # Load credentials from JSON credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file( SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE, scopes=SCOPES ) # Refresh/obtain token credentials.refresh(Request()) return credentials.token
We will use this to call it:
token = get_access_token() print("Access Token:", token)
We now need to go to the Google Play publish console.
We will go after that.
Promote the user who we created:
We assign the app to which it will affect:
You will be granted permission to view financial information and access subscriptions or purchases.
We have to update the purchase or subscription in-app if they were created before creating this user.
