Provides support for obtaining OAuth2 credentials to access Google APIs.

This package also provides convenience functionality for:

  • obtaining authenticated HTTP clients
  • automatically refreshing OAuth2 credentials

Do NOT use this package (package:googleapis_auth) with a Flutter application.

Use package:extension_google_sign_in_as_googleapis_auth instead.

Using this package

Using this package requires creating a Google Cloud Project and obtaining application credentials for the specific application type. The steps required are:

  • Create a new Google Cloud Project on the Google Developers Console
  • Enable all APIs that the application will use on the Google Developers Console (under DevConsole -> Project -> APIs & auth -> APIs)
  • Obtain application credentials for a specific application type on the Google Developers Console (under DevConsole -> Project -> APIs & auth -> Credentials)
  • Use the googleapis_auth package to obtain access credentials / obtain an authenticated HTTP client.

Depending on the application type, there are different ways to achieve the third and fourth step. The following is a list of supported OAuth2 flows with a description of these two steps.

Client-side Web Application

For client-side only web applications a "Client ID" needs to be created (under DevConsole -> Project -> APIs & auth -> Credentials). When creating a new client ID, select the "Web application" type. For client-side only applications, no Redirect URIs are necessary. The Javascript Origins setting must be set to all URLs on which your application will be served (e.g. http://localhost:8080 for local testing).

After the Client ID has been created, you can obtain access credentials via

import 'package:googleapis_auth/auth_browser.dart';

// Initialize the browser oauth2 flow functionality then use it to obtain credentials.
Future<AccessCredentials> obtainCredentials() => requestAccessCredentials(
  clientId: '....apps.googleusercontent.com',
  scopes: ['scope1', 'scope2'],
);

or obtain an authenticated HTTP client via

import 'package:googleapis_auth/auth_browser.dart';
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

Future<AuthClient> obtainClient() async {
  final credentials = await requestAccessCredentials(
    clientId: '....apps.googleusercontent.com',
    scopes: ['scope1', 'scope2'],
  );

  return authenticatedClient(http.Client(), credentials);
}

Autonomous Application / Service Account

If an application wants to act autonomously and access e.g. data from a Google Cloud Project, then a Service Account can be created. In this case no user authorization is involved.

A service account can be created via the "Service account" application type when creating a Client ID (under DevConsole -> Project -> APIs & auth -> Credentials). It will download a JSON document which contains a private RSA key. That private key is used for obtaining access credentials.

After the service account was created, you can obtain access credentials via

import 'package:googleapis_auth/auth_io.dart';
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

// Use service account credentials to obtain oauth credentials.
Future<AccessCredentials> obtainCredentials() async {
  final accountCredentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.fromJson({
    'private_key_id': '<please fill in>',
    'private_key': '<please fill in>',
    'client_email': '<please fill in>@developer.gserviceaccount.com',
    'client_id': '<please fill in>.apps.googleusercontent.com',
    'type': 'service_account'
  });
  final scopes = ['scope1', 'scope2'];

  final client = http.Client();
  final credentials = await obtainAccessCredentialsViaServiceAccount(
          accountCredentials, scopes, client);

  client.close();
  return credentials;
}

or an authenticated HTTP client via

import 'package:googleapis_auth/auth_io.dart';

// Use service account credentials to get an authenticated and auto refreshing
// client.
Future<AuthClient> obtainAuthenticatedClient() async {
  final accountCredentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.fromJson({
    'private_key_id': '<please fill in>',
    'private_key': '<please fill in>',
    'client_email': '<please fill in>@developer.gserviceaccount.com',
    'client_id': '<please fill in>.apps.googleusercontent.com',
    'type': 'service_account'
  });
  final scopes = ['scope1'];

  final AuthClient client =
  await clientViaServiceAccount(accountCredentials, scopes);

  return client; // Remember to close the client when you are finished with it.
}

The authenticated HTTP client can now access APIs.

Impersonation

For some APIs the use of a service account also requires to impersonate a user. To support that the ServiceAccountCredentials constructors have an optional argument impersonatedUser to specify the user to impersonate.

One example of this are the Google Apps APIs. See Perform Google Apps Domain-Wide Delegation of Authority for information on the additional security configuration required to enable this for a service account.

Autonomous Application / Compute Engine using metadata service

If an application wants to act autonomously and access e.g. data from a Google Cloud Project, then a Service Account can be used. In case the application is running on a ComputeEngine VM it is possible to start a VM with a set of scopes the VM is allowed to use. See the documentation for further information.

Here is an example of using the metadata service for obtaining access credentials on a ComputeEngine VM.

import 'package:googleapis_auth/auth_io.dart';
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

// Use the metadata service to obtain oauth credentials.
Future<AccessCredentials> obtainCredentials() async {
  final client = http.Client();

  final credentials =
  await obtainAccessCredentialsViaMetadataServer(client);

  client.close();
  return credentials;
}

or an authenticated HTTP client via

import 'package:googleapis_auth/auth_io.dart';

// Use the metadata service to get an authenticated and auto refreshing client.
Future<AuthClient> obtainAuthenticatedClient() async {
  final AuthClient client = await clientViaMetadataServer();

  return client; // Remember to close the client when you are finished with it.
}

The authenticated HTTP client can now access APIs.

Accessing Public Data with API Key

It is possible to access some APIs by just using an API key without OAuth2.

An API key can be obtained on the Google Developers Console by creating a Key at the "Public API access" section (under DevConsole -> Project -> APIs & auth -> Credentials).

A key can be created for different application types: For browser applications it is necessary to specify a set of referer URls from which the application would like to access APIs. For server applications it is possible to specify a list of IP ranges from which the client application would like to access APIs.

Note that the ApiKey is used for quota and billing purposes and should not be disclosed to third parties.

Here is an example of getting an HTTP client which uses an API key for making HTTP requests.

import "package:googleapis_auth/auth_io.dart";

var client = clientViaApiKey('<api-key-from-devconsole>');
// [client] can now be used to make REST calls to Google APIs.

...

client.close();

Using a non-Google authentication provider

This package is designed to work with Google's OAuth flow, but it can be used with other OAuth providers as well. To do this, you need to subclass AuthEndpoints and provide authorization and token uris. For example:

import 'package:googleapis_auth/auth_io.dart';

class MicrosoftAuthEndpoints extends AuthEndpoints {
  @override
  Uri get authorizationEndpoint =>
      Uri.https('login.microsoftonline.com', 'common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize');

  @override
  Uri get tokenEndpoint =>
      Uri.https('login.microsoftonline.com', 'common/oauth2/v2.0/token');
}

This can then be used to obtain credentials:

final credentials = await obtainAccessCredentialsViaUserConsent(
  clientId,
  ['scope1', 'scope2'],
  client,
  prompt,
  authEndpoints: MicrosoftAuthEndpoints(),
);

More information

More information can be obtained from official Google Developers documentation:

Libraries

auth_browser
auth_io
googleapis_auth
Contains common libraries used across the package.