Caller does not have permission error when using GMail API

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I get 500 server error on my django website thats running on Google App Engine. When I look at Google App Engine logs I see the following error:

googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 403 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/gmail/v1/rest returned "The caller does not have permission">

When I hard refresh the browser this error goes away. Then after some time it pops back up. Happens on mobile(firefox, safari), laptop (firefox,chrome).

UPDATE:

In Django settings.py I have following code. Its last line generates the error :

pickle_path = 'token.pickle'  # path to token.pickle
with open(pickle_path, 'rb') as token:
    creds = pickle.load(token)
SERVICE = build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=creds)  # ERROR LINE

When I run the django server locally: I get following error:

googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 403 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/gmail/v1/rest returned "The caller does not have permission">

When I restart cloud sql connection from my terminal - the error is gone. This never used to happen until a few days ago.

gmail-api google-app-engine django
3 Answers

Here's a workaround:

  • Download the discovery_doc directly from google here
  • Load the json file (you can name it gmail-api.json)
  • Build from this json file using build_from_document

Before

    from googleapiclient.discovery import build

    gmail_creds = get_service_account_creds()
    gmail_service = build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=gmail_creds)

After

    from googleapiclient.discovery import build_from_document

    discovery_doc = load_json('config/gmail-api.json')
    gmail_creds = get_service_account_creds()

    gmail_service = build_from_document(discovery_doc, credentials=gmail_creds)

It seems that it is now a P0 for Google, so hopefully it will be fixed soon.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/160441983

user_40832250

I am also started facing this issue. I have been using Google APIs for more than a year, but suddenly this error HttpError 403 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/gmail/v1/rest returned "The caller does not have permission. However, couple of times I didn't see this error and API call was successful. I hope this error at the Gmail API server.

Update: I am able to call Google APIs without any issues. Seems like issue is resolved at google's end.

user_28047380

I am having the same issue with GAM ADV-X. I thought it was an issue on my computer so I tried on 2 different computers and get the same error. It indeed looks like something changed in the Gmail API over the weekend. Will submit a ticket to Google.

user_80949890
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