Node.js: Using the API with Authentication #743
Description
Copied from original issue: googleapis/nodejs-speech#69
@taf2
April 29, 2018 6:36 PM
Browsing samples authentication appears to be ignored. So we get errors like the one below:
Error: Unexpected error while acquiring application default credentials: Could not load the default credentials. Browse to https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/application-default-credentials for more information.
at GoogleAuth.<anonymous> (/Users/taf2/work/ctm-ai/node_modules/google-auth-library/build/src/auth/googleauth.js:235:31)
at step (/Users/taf2/work/ctm-ai/node_modules/google-auth-library/build/src/auth/googleauth.js:47:23)
at Object.next (/Users/taf2/work/ctm-ai/node_modules/google-auth-library/build/src/auth/googleauth.js:28:53)
at fulfilled (/Users/taf2/work/ctm-ai/node_modules/google-auth-library/build/src/auth/googleauth.js:19:58)
at <anonymous>
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)
It might be nice to include examples that show how to exactly pass the API keys into the code so people don't have to guess...
Before you begin
Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
Go to the projects page
Enable billing for your project.
Enable billing
Enable the Google Cloud Speech API API.
Enable the API
Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.
from the README - takes me to pages that don't explain how to use the node.js API to authenticate....
Contrast that with examples from similar competing projects:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/TranscribeService.html
http://voicebase.readthedocs.io/en/v3/how-to-guides/hello-world.html#how-to-get-your-bearer-token
https://console.bluemix.net/docs/services/watson/getting-started-tokens.html#tokens-for-authentication
I just think a few one liners, making this very obvious would help more people use this API with less friction to getting started...
this page for example doesn't help:
https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started#auth-cloud-implicit-nodejs
// Imports the Google Cloud client library.
const Storage = require('@google-cloud/storage');
// Instantiates a client. If you don't specify credentials when constructing
// the client, the client library will look for credentials in the
// environment.
const storage = new Storage();
// Makes an authenticated API request.
storage
.getBuckets()
.then((results) => {
const buckets = results[0];
console.log('Buckets:');
buckets.forEach((bucket) => {
console.log(bucket.name);
});
})
.catch((err) => {
console.error('ERROR:', err);
});```
I don't see any thing in there about where to place an API key?