[Solved] How to use google-api-client for Google Cloud Logging

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This is less easy to find because many of Google’s Cloud (!) services now prefer Cloud Client libraries.

However…

import google.auth

from googleapiclient import discovery

credentials, project = google.auth.default()

service = discovery.build("logging", "v2", credentials=credentials)

Auth: https://pypi.org/project/google-auth/

Now, this uses Google Application Default credentials and I recommend you create a service account, generate a key and grant the account the permission needed. You will then need to export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS before running your code.

PROJECT=[[YOUR-PROJECT]]
BILLING=[[YOUR-BILLING]]
ACCOUNT=[[YOUR-ACCOUNT]]

gcloud projects create ${PROJECT}
gcloud beta billing projects link ${PROJECT} \
--billing-account=${BILLING}

gcloud iam service-accounts create ${ACCOUNT} \
--project=${PROJECT}

EMAIL="${ACCOUNT}@${PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com"

gcloud iam service-accounts keys create ${PWD}/${ACCOUNT}.json \
--iam-account=${EMAIL} \
--project=${PROJECT}

# See: https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles#logging-roles
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding ${PROJECT} \
--member=serviceAccount:${EMAIL} \
--role=roles/logging.viewer

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=${PWD}/${ACCOUNT}.json

python3 your-code.py

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solved How to use google-api-client for Google Cloud Logging