Python: How do I resolve oauth2client.client.ApplicationDefaultCredentialsError: The Application Default Credentials are not available?

[Amadi, David]

Hi Deborah,

Thank you for stepping in, I appreciate it.

Here's the python code I'm working with -
http://codegists.com/snippet/python/youtube_searchpy_valeraradu_python

To be honest, I don't know how to define the environment variable
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to point to a file defining the credentials.
In the python script (link in the above line), you could only add the API
Key, which I obtained and provided - but the script won't run.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Regards,
David

On 5 February 2017 at 03:16, Deborah Swanson <python at deborahswanson.net>
wrote:

> david.amadi at digital.beis.gov.uk wrote, on
> Saturday, February 04, 2017 3:39 PM
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I'm a newbie to python programming - got into it
> > predominately for the purposes of machine learning and data
> > mining and even though I've committed several weeks to
> > learning the scripting language, I have struggled to fully
> > grasp how it works.
> >
> > I'm looking to scrape title, video Id, view Count, like
> > Count, dislike Count, comment Count, favourite Count etc off
> > YouTube using a python script I found via an online tutorial.
> >
> > I have installed 'unidecode' and 'google-api-python-client'
> > packages via my terminal. I have also enabled YouTube Data
> > Api V3 and I'm getting the error below each time I run the script.
> >
> > Could anyone please point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance for your help
> >
> > ****
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/Users/*Path*/ML with Python/youtube_search.py", line
> > 73, in <module>
> >     youtube_search(args)
> >   File "/Users/*Path*/ML with Python/youtube_search.py", line
> > 21, in youtube_search
> >     youtube = build(YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME,
> > YOUTUBE_API_VERSION, developerKey=DEVELOPER_KEY)
> >   File
> > "/Users/*Path*/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/oauth2clie
> > nt/_helpers.py", line 133, in positional_wrapper
> >     return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
> >   File
> > "/Users/*Path*/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/googleapic
> > lient/discovery.py", line 226, in build
> >     credentials=credentials)
> >   File
> > "/Users/*Path*/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/oauth2clie
> > nt/_helpers.py", line 133, in positional_wrapper
> >     return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
> >   File
> > "/Users/*Path*/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/googleapic
> > lient/discovery.py", line 358, in build_from_document
> >     credentials = _auth.default_credentials()
> >   File
> > "/Users/*Path*/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/googleapic
> > lient/_auth.py", line 41, in default_credentials
> >     return
> > oauth2client.client.GoogleCredentials.get_application_default()
> >   File
> > "/Users/*Path*/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/oauth2clie
> > nt/client.py", line 1264, in get_application_default
> >     return GoogleCredentials._get_implicit_credentials()
> >   File
> > "/Users/*Path*/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/oauth2clie
> > nt/client.py", line 1254, in _get_implicit_credentials
> >     raise ApplicationDefaultCredentialsError(ADC_HELP_MSG)
> > oauth2client.client.ApplicationDefaultCredentialsError: The
> > Application Default Credentials are not available. They are
> > available if running in Google Compute Engine. Otherwise, the
> > environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS must be
> > defined pointing to a file defining the credentials. See
> > https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/application-defaul
> t-credentials for more information.
>
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> I'm also a relatively new python coder (little over a year), but it
> seems plain to me that "The Application Default Credentials ... are
> available if running in Google Compute Engine. Otherwise, the
> environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS must be defined
> pointing to a file defining the credentials. See
> https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/application-default-credenti
> als for more information."
>
> If you're not running in Google Compute Engine, you need to make a file
> defining the credentials, and supposedly there are instructions or
> requirements in the link above.
>
> Looks like Anaconda tried to get the credentials by calling its
> _auth.default_credentials() function:
>
> credentials = _auth.default_credentials()
>
> from "python3.5/site-packages/googleapiclient/discovery.py", but it
> failed. I think you need to read that link and make the file it wants to
> find.
>
> Deborah
>
>


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david.amadi at digital.beis.gov.uk


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