How can I get the file "service_account.json" for Google Translate API?

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I try to use the Google Translate API in my development, but i can´t find a way to obtain the "service_account.json" file.

The step on "Console Google Cloud Platform":

steps on Console :

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Please, I need the steps in detail, since what I get from Google do not serve me

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4 Answers

Took me a while to find how to download the json key.

  1. Create a service account
  2. Open the service account in your cloud console and add a key enter image description here
  3. In the dropdown menu choose create key 4.Then choose key type json enter image description here
user_144116230

the newest way to get credential.js is click to 'your_email_servicer'-> chose tab key then click [add Key]

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The service account key can only be retrieved the first time the sa is created especially in case you did it via GCP console, it's a security mechanism. But it's not a big deal you can delete the old one and create a new one and that's it, the SA still remains the same, it's good to rotate keys.

In case you use IaC like GDM (Google Deployment Manager) or Terraform you can retrieve it as many times as you need.

For Terraform just configure the necessary output like this...

### Resources

resource "google_service_account" "my_service_account_name" {
  account_id    = "my-sa"
  display_name  = "my-sa"
  description   = "This is for descriptions"
}

resource "google_service_account_key" "my_service_account_key" {
  service_account_id = google_service_account.my_service_account_name.name
}

### Outputs

output "my_service_account_key" {
  description = "This is for descriptions (for single use)."
  # sensitive   = true # you can add sensitive to avoid showing it in plain text each time you run the code in case you don't need to retrieve it each time
  value = base64decode(google_service_account_key.my_service_account_key.private_key)
}

For GDM, remember it's not anymore recommended from GCP to be used for IaC management, you can still retrieve it with the CLI describing the resource and adding a basic jq query for the sa key resource...

gcloud deployment-manager deployments describe my-gdm-deployment-name \
    --project project-name \
    --format json | jq -r '.outputs[] | select(.name==my-sa-key-resource-name") | .finalValue'| base64 --decode
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