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🔑 Google Auth Library for Node.js

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Google Auth Library: Node.js Client

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This is Google's officially supported node.js client library for using OAuth 2.0 authorization and authentication with Google APIs.

A comprehensive list of changes in each version may be found in the CHANGELOG.

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

Quickstart

Installing the client library

npm install google-auth-library

Ways to authenticate

This library provides a variety of ways to authenticate to your Google services.

  • Application Default Credentials - Use Application Default Credentials when you use a single identity for all users in your application. Especially useful for applications running on Google Cloud. Application Default Credentials also support workload identity federation to access Google Cloud resources from non-Google Cloud platforms.
  • OAuth 2 - Use OAuth2 when you need to perform actions on behalf of the end user.
  • JSON Web Tokens - Use JWT when you are using a single identity for all users. Especially useful for server->server or server->API communication.
  • Google Compute - Directly use a service account on Google Cloud Platform. Useful for server->server or server->API communication.
  • Workload Identity Federation - Use workload identity federation to access Google Cloud resources from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or any identity provider that supports OpenID Connect (OIDC).
  • Workforce Identity Federation - Use workforce identity federation to access Google Cloud resources using an external identity provider (IdP) to authenticate and authorize a workforce—a group of users, such as employees, partners, and contractors—using IAM, so that the users can access Google Cloud services.
  • Impersonated Credentials Client - access protected resources on behalf of another service account.
  • Downscoped Client - Use Downscoped Client with Credential Access Boundary to generate a short-lived credential with downscoped, restricted IAM permissions that can use for Cloud Storage.

Application Default Credentials

This library provides an implementation of Application Default Credentialsfor Node.js. The Application Default Credentials provide a simple way to get authorization credentials for use in calling Google APIs.

They are best suited for cases when the call needs to have the same identity and authorization level for the application independent of the user. This is the recommended approach to authorize calls to Cloud APIs, particularly when you're building an application that uses Google Cloud Platform.

Application Default Credentials also support workload identity federation to access Google Cloud resources from non-Google Cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or any identity provider that supports OpenID Connect (OIDC). Workload identity federation is recommended for non-Google Cloud environments as it avoids the need to download, manage and store service account private keys locally, see: Workload Identity Federation.

Download your Service Account Credentials JSON file

To use Application Default Credentials, You first need to download a set of JSON credentials for your project. Go to APIs & Auth > Credentials in the Google Developers Console and select Service account from the Add credentials dropdown.

This file is your only copy of these credentials. It should never be committed with your source code, and should be stored securely.

Once downloaded, store the path to this file in the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.

Enable the API you want to use

Before making your API call, you must be sure the API you're calling has been enabled. Go to APIs & Auth > APIs in the Google Developers Console and enable the APIs you'd like to call. For the example below, you must enable the DNS API.

Choosing the correct credential type automatically

Rather than manually creating an OAuth2 client, JWT client, or Compute client, the auth library can create the correct credential type for you, depending upon the environment your code is running under.

For example, a JWT auth client will be created when your code is running on your local developer machine, and a Compute client will be created when the same code is running on Google Cloud Platform. If you need a specific set of scopes, you can pass those in the form of a string or an array to the GoogleAuth constructor.

The code below shows how to retrieve a default credential type, depending upon the runtime environment.

const {GoogleAuth} = require('google-auth-library');

/**
* Instead of specifying the type of client you'd like to use (JWT, OAuth2, etc)
* this library will automatically choose the right client based on the environment.
*/
async function main() {
  const auth = new GoogleAuth({
    scopes: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'
  });
  const client = await auth.getClient();
  const projectId = await auth.getProjectId();
  const url = `https://dns.googleapis.com/dns/v1/projects/${projectId}`;
  const res = await client.request({ url });
  console.log(res.data);
}

main().catch(console.error);

OAuth2

This library comes with an OAuth2 client that allows you to retrieve an access token and refreshes the token and retry the request seamlessly if you also provide an expiry_date and the token is expired. The basics of Google's OAuth2 implementation is explained on Google Authorization and Authentication documentation.

In the following examples, you may need a CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET and REDIRECT_URL. You can find these pieces of information by going to the Developer Console, clicking your project > APIs & auth > credentials.

For more information about OAuth2 and how it works, see here.

A complete OAuth2 example

Let's take a look at a complete example.

const {OAuth2Client} = require('google-auth-library');
const http = require('http');
const url = require('url');
const open = require('open');
const destroyer = require('server-destroy');

// Download your OAuth2 configuration from the Google
const keys = require('./oauth2.keys.json');

/**
* Start by acquiring a pre-authenticated oAuth2 client.
*/
async function main() {
  const oAuth2Client = await getAuthenticatedClient();
  // Make a simple request to the People API using our pre-authenticated client. The `request()` method
  // takes an GaxiosOptions object.  Visit https://github.com/JustinBeckwith/gaxios.
  const url = 'https://people.googleapis.com/v1/people/me?personFields=names';
  const res = await oAuth2Client.request({url});
  console.log(res.data);

  // After acquiring an access_token, you may want to check on the audience, expiration,
  // or original scopes requested.  You can do that with the `getTokenInfo` method.
  const tokenInfo = await oAuth2Client.getTokenInfo(
    oAuth2Client.credentials.access_token
  );
  console.log(tokenInfo);
}

/**
* Create a new OAuth2Client, and go through the OAuth2 content
* workflow.  Return the full client to the callback.
*/
function getAuthenticatedClient() {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    // create an oAuth client to authorize the API call.  Secrets are kept in a `keys.json` file,
    // which should be downloaded from the Google Developers Console.
    const oAuth2Client = new OAuth2Client(
      keys.web.client_id,
      keys.web.client_secret,
      keys.web.redirect_uris[0]
    );

    // Generate the url that will be used for the consent dialog.
    const authorizeUrl = oAuth2Client.generateAuthUrl({
      access_type: 'offline',
      scope: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile',
    });

    // Open an http server to accept the oauth callback. In this simple example, the
    // only request to our webserver is to /oauth2callback?code=<code>
    const server = http
      .createServer(async (req, res) => {
        try {
          if (req.url.indexOf('/oauth2callback') > -1) {
            // acquire the code from the querystring, and close the web server.
            const qs = new url.URL(req.url, 'http://localhost:3000')
              .searchParams;
            const code = qs.get('code');
            console.log(`Code is ${code}`);
            res.end('Authentication successful! Please return to the console.');
            server.destroy();

            // Now that we have the code, use that to acquire tokens.
            const r = await oAuth2Client.getToken(code);
            // Make sure to set the credentials on the OAuth2 client.
            oAuth2Client.setCredentials(r.tokens);
            console.info('Tokens acquired.');
            resolve(oAuth2Client);
          }
        } catch (e) {
          reject(e);
        }
      })
      .listen(3000, () => {
        // open the browser to the authorize url to start the workflow
        open(authorizeUrl, {wait: false}).then(cp => cp.unref());
      });
    destroyer(server);
  });
}

main().catch(console.error);

Handling token events

This library will automatically obtain an access_token, and automatically refresh the access_token if a refresh_token is present. The refresh_token is only returned on the first authorization, so if you want to make sure you store it safely. An easy way to make sure you always store the most recent tokens is to use the tokens event:

const client = await auth.getClient();

client.on('tokens', (tokens) => {
  if (tokens.refresh_token) {
    // store the refresh_token in my database!
    console.log(tokens.refresh_token);
  }
  console.log(tokens.access_token);
});

const url = `https://dns.googleapis.com/dns/v1/projects/${projectId}`;
const res = await client.request({ url });
// The `tokens` event would now be raised if this was the first request

Retrieve access token

With the code returned, you can ask for an access token as shown below:

const tokens = await oauth2Client.getToken(code);
// Now tokens contains an access_token and an optional refresh_token. Save them.
oauth2Client.setCredentials(tokens);

Obtaining a new Refresh Token

If you need to obtain a new refresh_token, ensure the call to generateAuthUrl sets the access_type to offline. The refresh token will only be returned for the first authorization by the user. To force consent, set the prompt property to consent:

// Generate the url that will be used for the consent dialog.
const authorizeUrl = oAuth2Client.generateAuthUrl({
  // To get a refresh token, you MUST set access_type to `offline`.
  access_type: 'offline',
  // set the appropriate scopes
  scope: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile',
  // A refresh token is only returned the first time the user
  // consents to providing access.  For illustration purposes,
  // setting the prompt to 'consent' will force this consent
  // every time, forcing a refresh_token to be returned.
  prompt: 'consent'
});

Checking access_token information

After obtaining and storing an access_token, at a later time you may want to go check the expiration date, original scopes, or audience for the token. To get the token info, you can use the getTokenInfo method:

// after acquiring an oAuth2Client...
const tokenInfo = await oAuth2Client.getTokenInfo('my-access-token');

// take a look at the scopes originally provisioned for the access token
console.log(tokenInfo.scopes);

This method will throw if the token is invalid.

OAuth2 with Installed Apps (Electron)

If you're authenticating with OAuth2 from an installed application (like Electron), you may not want to embed your client_secret inside of the application sources. To work around this restriction, you can choose the iOS application type when creating your OAuth2 credentials in the Google Developers console:

application type

If using the iOS type, when creating the OAuth2 client you won't need to pass a client_secret into the constructor:

const oAuth2Client = new OAuth2Client({
  clientId: <your_client_id>,
  redirectUri: <your_redirect_uri>
});

JSON Web Tokens

The Google Developers Console provides a .json file that you can use to configure a JWT auth client and authenticate your requests, for example when using a service account.

const {JWT} = require('google-auth-library');
const keys = require('./jwt.keys.json');

async function main() {
  const client = new JWT({
    email: keys.client_email,
    key: keys.private_key,
    scopes: ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'],
  });
  const url = `https://dns.googleapis.com/dns/v1/projects/${keys.project_id}`;
  const res = await client.request({url});
  console.log(res.data);
}

main().catch(console.error);

The parameters for the JWT auth client including how to use it with a .pem file are explained in samples/jwt.js.

Loading credentials from environment variables

Instead of loading credentials from a key file, you can also provide them using an environment variable and the GoogleAuth.fromJSON() method. This is particularly convenient for systems that deploy directly from source control (Heroku, App Engine, etc).

Start by exporting your credentials:

$ export CREDS='{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "your-project-id",
  "private_key_id": "your-private-key-id",
  "private_key": "your-private-key",
  "client_email": "your-client-email",
  "client_id": "your-client-id",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "your-cert-url"
}'

Now you can create a new client from the credentials:

const {auth} = require('google-auth-library');

// load the environment variable with our keys
const keysEnvVar = process.env['CREDS'];
if (!keysEnvVar) {
  throw new Error('The $CREDS environment variable was not found!');
}
const keys = JSON.parse(keysEnvVar);

async function main() {
  // load the JWT or UserRefreshClient from the keys
  const client = auth.fromJSON(keys);
  client.scopes = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'];
  const url = `https://dns.googleapis.com/dns/v1/projects/${keys.project_id}`;
  const res = await client.request({url});
  console.log(res.data);
}

main().catch(console.error);

Using a Proxy

You can set the HTTPS_PROXY or https_proxy environment variables to proxy HTTPS requests. When HTTPS_PROXY or https_proxy are set, they will be used to proxy SSL requests that do not have an explicit proxy configuration option present.

Compute

If your application is running on Google Cloud Platform, you can authenticate using the default service account or by specifying a specific service account.

Note: In most cases, you will want to use Application Default Credentials. Direct use of the Compute class is for very specific scenarios.

const {auth, Compute} = require('google-auth-library');

async function main() {
  const client = new Compute({
    // Specifying the service account email is optional.
    serviceAccountEmail: '[email protected]'
  });
  const projectId = await auth.getProjectId();
  const url = `https://dns.googleapis.com/dns/v1/projects/${projectId}`;
  const res = await client.request({url});
  console.log(res.data);
}

main().catch(console.error);

Workload Identity Federation

Using workload identity federation, your application can access Google Cloud resources from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or any identity provider that supports OpenID Connect (OIDC).

Traditionally, applications running outside Google Cloud have used service account keys to access Google Cloud resources. Using identity federation, you can allow your workload to impersonate a service account. This lets you access Google Cloud resources directly, eliminating the maintenance and security burden associated with service account keys.

Accessing resources from AWS

In order to access Google Cloud resources from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the following requirements are needed:

  • A workload identity pool needs to be created.
  • AWS needs to be added as an identity provider in the workload identity pool (The Google organization policy needs to allow federation from AWS).
  • Permission to impersonate a service account needs to be granted to the external identity.

Follow the detailed instructions on how to configure workload identity federation from AWS.

After configuring the AWS provider to impersonate a service account, a credential configuration file needs to be generated. Unlike service account credential files, the generated credential configuration file will only contain non-sensitive metadata to instruct the library on how to retrieve external subject tokens and exchange them for service account access tokens. The configuration file can be generated by using the gcloud CLI.

To generate the AWS workload identity configuration, run the following command:

# Generate an AWS configuration file.
gcloud iam workload-identity-pools create-cred-config \
    projects/$PROJECT_NUMBER/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/$POOL_ID/providers/$AWS_PROVIDER_ID \
    --service-account $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL \
    --aws \
    --output-file /path/to/generated/config.json

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $PROJECT_NUMBER: The Google Cloud project number.
  • $POOL_ID: The workload identity pool ID.
  • $AWS_PROVIDER_ID: The AWS provider ID.
  • $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: The email of the service account to impersonate.

This will generate the configuration file in the specified output file.

If you want to use the AWS IMDSv2 flow, you can add the field below to the credential_source in your AWS ADC configuration file: "imdsv2_session_token_url": "http://169.254.169.254/latest/api/token" The gcloud create-cred-config command will be updated to support this soon.

You can now start using the Auth library to call Google Cloud resources from AWS.

Access resources from Microsoft Azure

In order to access Google Cloud resources from Microsoft Azure, the following requirements are needed:

  • A workload identity pool needs to be created.
  • Azure needs to be added as an identity provider in the workload identity pool (The Google organization policy needs to allow federation from Azure).
  • The Azure tenant needs to be configured for identity federation.
  • Permission to impersonate a service account needs to be granted to the external identity.

Follow the detailed instructions on how to configure workload identity federation from Microsoft Azure.

After configuring the Azure provider to impersonate a service account, a credential configuration file needs to be generated. Unlike service account credential files, the generated credential configuration file will only contain non-sensitive metadata to instruct the library on how to retrieve external subject tokens and exchange them for service account access tokens. The configuration file can be generated by using the gcloud CLI.

To generate the Azure workload identity configuration, run the following command:

# Generate an Azure configuration file.
gcloud iam workload-identity-pools create-cred-config \
    projects/$PROJECT_NUMBER/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/$POOL_ID/providers/$AZURE_PROVIDER_ID \
    --service-account $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL \
    --azure \
    --output-file /path/to/generated/config.json

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $PROJECT_NUMBER: The Google Cloud project number.
  • $POOL_ID: The workload identity pool ID.
  • $AZURE_PROVIDER_ID: The Azure provider ID.
  • $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: The email of the service account to impersonate.

This will generate the configuration file in the specified output file.

You can now start using the Auth library to call Google Cloud resources from Azure.

Accessing resources from an OIDC identity provider

In order to access Google Cloud resources from an identity provider that supports OpenID Connect (OIDC), the following requirements are needed:

  • A workload identity pool needs to be created.
  • An OIDC identity provider needs to be added in the workload identity pool (The Google organization policy needs to allow federation from the identity provider).
  • Permission to impersonate a service account needs to be granted to the external identity.

Follow the detailed instructions on how to configure workload identity federation from an OIDC identity provider.

After configuring the OIDC provider to impersonate a service account, a credential configuration file needs to be generated. Unlike service account credential files, the generated credential configuration file will only contain non-sensitive metadata to instruct the library on how to retrieve external subject tokens and exchange them for service account access tokens. The configuration file can be generated by using the gcloud CLI.

For OIDC providers, the Auth library can retrieve OIDC tokens either from a local file location (file-sourced credentials) or from a local server (URL-sourced credentials).

File-sourced credentials For file-sourced credentials, a background process needs to be continuously refreshing the file location with a new OIDC token prior to expiration. For tokens with one hour lifetimes, the token needs to be updated in the file every hour. The token can be stored directly as plain text or in JSON format.

To generate a file-sourced OIDC configuration, run the following command:

# Generate an OIDC configuration file for file-sourced credentials.
gcloud iam workload-identity-pools create-cred-config \
    projects/$PROJECT_NUMBER/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/$POOL_ID/providers/$OIDC_PROVIDER_ID \
    --service-account $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL \
    --credential-source-file $PATH_TO_OIDC_ID_TOKEN \
    # Optional arguments for file types. Default is "text":
    # --credential-source-type "json" \
    # Optional argument for the field that contains the OIDC credential.
    # This is required for json.
    # --credential-source-field-name "id_token" \
    --output-file /path/to/generated/config.json

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $PROJECT_NUMBER: The Google Cloud project number.
  • $POOL_ID: The workload identity pool ID.
  • $OIDC_PROVIDER_ID: The OIDC provider ID.
  • $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: The email of the service account to impersonate.
  • $PATH_TO_OIDC_ID_TOKEN: The file path where the OIDC token will be retrieved from.

This will generate the configuration file in the specified output file.

URL-sourced credentials For URL-sourced credentials, a local server needs to host a GET endpoint to return the OIDC token. The response can be in plain text or JSON. Additional required request headers can also be specified.

To generate a URL-sourced OIDC workload identity configuration, run the following command:

# Generate an OIDC configuration file for URL-sourced credentials.
gcloud iam workload-identity-pools create-cred-config \
    projects/$PROJECT_NUMBER/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/$POOL_ID/providers/$OIDC_PROVIDER_ID \
    --service-account $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL \
    --credential-source-url $URL_TO_GET_OIDC_TOKEN \
    --credential-source-headers $HEADER_KEY=$HEADER_VALUE \
    # Optional arguments for file types. Default is "text":
    # --credential-source-type "json" \
    # Optional argument for the field that contains the OIDC credential.
    # This is required for json.
    # --credential-source-field-name "id_token" \
    --output-file /path/to/generated/config.json

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $PROJECT_NUMBER: The Google Cloud project number.
  • $POOL_ID: The workload identity pool ID.
  • $OIDC_PROVIDER_ID: The OIDC provider ID.
  • $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: The email of the service account to impersonate.
  • $URL_TO_GET_OIDC_TOKEN: The URL of the local server endpoint to call to retrieve the OIDC token.
  • $HEADER_KEY and $HEADER_VALUE: The additional header key/value pairs to pass along the GET request to $URL_TO_GET_OIDC_TOKEN, e.g. Metadata-Flavor=Google.

Using External Account Authorized User workforce credentials

External account authorized user credentials allow you to sign in with a web browser to an external identity provider account via the gcloud CLI and create a configuration for the auth library to use.

To generate an external account authorized user workforce identity configuration, run the following command:

gcloud auth application-default login --login-config=$LOGIN_CONFIG

Where the following variable needs to be substituted:

This will open a browser flow for you to sign in via the configured third party identity provider and then will store the external account authorized user configuration at the well known ADC location. The auth library will then use the provided refresh token from the configuration to generate and refresh an access token to call Google Cloud services.

Note that the default lifetime of the refresh token is one hour, after which a new configuration will need to be generated from the gcloud CLI. The lifetime can be modified by changing the session duration of the workforce pool, and can be set as high as 12 hours.

Using Executable-sourced credentials with OIDC and SAML

Executable-sourced credentials For executable-sourced credentials, a local executable is used to retrieve the 3rd party token. The executable must handle providing a valid, unexpired OIDC ID token or SAML assertion in JSON format to stdout.

To use executable-sourced credentials, the GOOGLE_EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_ALLOW_EXECUTABLES environment variable must be set to 1.

To generate an executable-sourced workload identity configuration, run the following command:

# Generate a configuration file for executable-sourced credentials.
gcloud iam workload-identity-pools create-cred-config \
    projects/$PROJECT_NUMBER/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/$POOL_ID/providers/$PROVIDER_ID \
    --service-account=$SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL \
    --subject-token-type=$SUBJECT_TOKEN_TYPE \
    # The absolute path for the program, including arguments.
    # e.g. --executable-command="/path/to/command --foo=bar"
    --executable-command=$EXECUTABLE_COMMAND \
    # Optional argument for the executable timeout. Defaults to 30s.
    # --executable-timeout-millis=$EXECUTABLE_TIMEOUT \
    # Optional argument for the absolute path to the executable output file.
    # See below on how this argument impacts the library behaviour.
    # --executable-output-file=$EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_FILE \
    --output-file /path/to/generated/config.json

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $PROJECT_NUMBER: The Google Cloud project number.
  • $POOL_ID: The workload identity pool ID.
  • $PROVIDER_ID: The OIDC or SAML provider ID.
  • $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: The email of the service account to impersonate.
  • $SUBJECT_TOKEN_TYPE: The subject token type.
  • $EXECUTABLE_COMMAND: The full command to run, including arguments. Must be an absolute path to the program.

The --executable-timeout-millis flag is optional. This is the duration for which the auth library will wait for the executable to finish, in milliseconds. Defaults to 30 seconds when not provided. The maximum allowed value is 2 minutes. The minimum is 5 seconds.

The --executable-output-file flag is optional. If provided, the file path must point to the 3PI credential response generated by the executable. This is useful for caching the credentials. By specifying this path, the Auth libraries will first check for its existence before running the executable. By caching the executable JSON response to this file, it improves performance as it avoids the need to run the executable until the cached credentials in the output file are expired. The executable must handle writing to this file - the auth libraries will only attempt to read from this location. The format of contents in the file should match the JSON format expected by the executable shown below.

To retrieve the 3rd party token, the library will call the executable using the command specified. The executable's output must adhere to the response format specified below. It must output the response to stdout.

A sample successful executable OIDC response:

{
  "version": 1,
  "success": true,
  "token_type": "urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:id_token",
  "id_token": "HEADER.PAYLOAD.SIGNATURE",
  "expiration_time": 1620499962
}

A sample successful executable SAML response:

{
  "version": 1,
  "success": true,
  "token_type": "urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:saml2",
  "saml_response": "...",
  "expiration_time": 1620499962
}

For successful responses, the expiration_time field is only required when an output file is specified in the credential configuration.

A sample executable error response:

{
  "version": 1,
  "success": false,
  "code": "401",
  "message": "Caller not authorized."
}

These are all required fields for an error response. The code and message fields will be used by the library as part of the thrown exception.

Response format fields summary:

  • version: The version of the JSON output. Currently, only version 1 is supported.
  • success: The status of the response. When true, the response must contain the 3rd party token and token type. The response must also contain the expiration time if an output file was specified in the credential configuration. The executable must also exit with exit code 0. When false, the response must contain the error code and message fields and exit with a non-zero value.
  • token_type: The 3rd party subject token type. Must be urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:jwt, urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:id_token, or urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:saml2.
  • id_token: The 3rd party OIDC token.
  • saml_response: The 3rd party SAML response.
  • expiration_time: The 3rd party subject token expiration time in seconds (unix epoch time).
  • code: The error code string.
  • message: The error message.

All response types must include both the version and success fields.

  • Successful responses must include the token_type and one of id_token or saml_response. The expiration_time field must also be present if an output file was specified in the credential configuration.
  • Error responses must include both the code and message fields.

The library will populate the following environment variables when the executable is run:

  • GOOGLE_EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_AUDIENCE: The audience field from the credential configuration. Always present.
  • GOOGLE_EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_IMPERSONATED_EMAIL: The service account email. Only present when service account impersonation is used.
  • GOOGLE_EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_OUTPUT_FILE: The output file location from the credential configuration. Only present when specified in the credential configuration.
  • GOOGLE_EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_TOKEN_TYPE: This expected subject token type. Always present.

These environment variables can be used by the executable to avoid hard-coding these values.

Security considerations

The following security practices are highly recommended:

  • Access to the script should be restricted as it will be displaying credentials to stdout. This ensures that rogue processes do not gain access to the script.
  • The configuration file should not be modifiable. Write access should be restricted to avoid processes modifying the executable command portion.

Given the complexity of using executable-sourced credentials, it is recommended to use the existing supported mechanisms (file-sourced/URL-sourced) for providing 3rd party credentials unless they do not meet your specific requirements.

You can now use the Auth library to call Google Cloud resources from an OIDC or SAML provider.

Configurable Token Lifetime

When creating a credential configuration with workload identity federation using service account impersonation, you can provide an optional argument to configure the service account access token lifetime.

To generate the configuration with configurable token lifetime, run the following command (this example uses an AWS configuration, but the token lifetime can be configured for all workload identity federation providers):

# Generate an AWS configuration file with configurable token lifetime.
gcloud iam workload-identity-pools create-cred-config \
    projects/$PROJECT_NUMBER/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/$POOL_ID/providers/$AWS_PROVIDER_ID \
    --service-account $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL \
    --aws \
    --output-file /path/to/generated/config.json \
    --service-account-token-lifetime-seconds $TOKEN_LIFETIME

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $PROJECT_NUMBER: The Google Cloud project number.
  • $POOL_ID: The workload identity pool ID.
  • $AWS_PROVIDER_ID: The AWS provider ID.
  • $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: The email of the service account to impersonate.
  • $TOKEN_LIFETIME: The desired lifetime duration of the service account access token in seconds.

The service-account-token-lifetime-seconds flag is optional. If not provided, this defaults to one hour. The minimum allowed value is 600 (10 minutes) and the maximum allowed value is 43200 (12 hours). If a lifetime greater than one hour is required, the service account must be added as an allowed value in an Organization Policy that enforces the constraints/iam.allowServiceAccountCredentialLifetimeExtension constraint.

Note that configuring a short lifetime (e.g. 10 minutes) will result in the library initiating the entire token exchange flow every 10 minutes, which will call the 3rd party token provider even if the 3rd party token is not expired.

Workforce Identity Federation

Workforce identity federation lets you use an external identity provider (IdP) to authenticate and authorize a workforce—a group of users, such as employees, partners, and contractors—using IAM, so that the users can access Google Cloud services. Workforce identity federation extends Google Cloud's identity capabilities to support syncless, attribute-based single sign on.

With workforce identity federation, your workforce can access Google Cloud resources using an external identity provider (IdP) that supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) or SAML 2.0 such as Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Okta, and others.

Accessing resources using an OIDC or SAML 2.0 identity provider

In order to access Google Cloud resources from an identity provider that supports OpenID Connect (OIDC), the following requirements are needed:

  • A workforce identity pool needs to be created.
  • An OIDC or SAML 2.0 identity provider needs to be added in the workforce pool.

Follow the detailed instructions on how to configure workforce identity federation.

After configuring an OIDC or SAML 2.0 provider, a credential configuration file needs to be generated. The generated credential configuration file contains non-sensitive metadata to instruct the library on how to retrieve external subject tokens and exchange them for GCP access tokens. The configuration file can be generated by using the gcloud CLI.

The Auth library can retrieve external subject tokens from a local file location (file-sourced credentials), from a local server (URL-sourced credentials) or by calling an executable (executable-sourced credentials).

File-sourced credentials For file-sourced credentials, a background process needs to be continuously refreshing the file location with a new subject token prior to expiration. For tokens with one hour lifetimes, the token needs to be updated in the file every hour. The token can be stored directly as plain text or in JSON format.

To generate a file-sourced OIDC configuration, run the following command:

# Generate an OIDC configuration file for file-sourced credentials.
gcloud iam workforce-pools create-cred-config \
    locations/global/workforcePools/$WORKFORCE_POOL_ID/providers/$PROVIDER_ID \
    --subject-token-type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:id_token \
    --credential-source-file=$PATH_TO_OIDC_ID_TOKEN \
    --workforce-pool-user-project=$WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT \
    # Optional arguments for file types. Default is "text":
    # --credential-source-type "json" \
    # Optional argument for the field that contains the OIDC credential.
    # This is required for json.
    # --credential-source-field-name "id_token" \
    --output-file=/path/to/generated/config.json

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_ID: The workforce pool ID.
  • $PROVIDER_ID: The provider ID.
  • $PATH_TO_OIDC_ID_TOKEN: The file path used to retrieve the OIDC token.
  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT: The project number associated with the workforce pools user project.

To generate a file-sourced SAML configuration, run the following command:

# Generate a SAML configuration file for file-sourced credentials.
gcloud iam workforce-pools create-cred-config \
    locations/global/workforcePools/$WORKFORCE_POOL_ID/providers/$PROVIDER_ID \
    --credential-source-file=$PATH_TO_SAML_ASSERTION \
    --subject-token-type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:saml2 \
    --workforce-pool-user-project=$WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT \
    --output-file=/path/to/generated/config.json

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_ID: The workforce pool ID.
  • $PROVIDER_ID: The provider ID.
  • $PATH_TO_SAML_ASSERTION: The file path used to retrieve the base64-encoded SAML assertion.
  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT: The project number associated with the workforce pools user project.

These commands generate the configuration file in the specified output file.

URL-sourced credentials For URL-sourced credentials, a local server needs to host a GET endpoint to return the OIDC token. The response can be in plain text or JSON. Additional required request headers can also be specified.

To generate a URL-sourced OIDC workforce identity configuration, run the following command:

# Generate an OIDC configuration file for URL-sourced credentials.
gcloud iam workforce-pools create-cred-config \
    locations/global/workforcePools/$WORKFORCE_POOL_ID/providers/$PROVIDER_ID \
    --subject-token-type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:id_token \
    --credential-source-url=$URL_TO_RETURN_OIDC_ID_TOKEN \
    --credential-source-headers $HEADER_KEY=$HEADER_VALUE \
    --workforce-pool-user-project=$WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT \
    --output-file=/path/to/generated/config.json

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_ID: The workforce pool ID.
  • $PROVIDER_ID: The provider ID.
  • $URL_TO_RETURN_OIDC_ID_TOKEN: The URL of the local server endpoint.
  • $HEADER_KEY and $HEADER_VALUE: The additional header key/value pairs to pass along the GET request to $URL_TO_GET_OIDC_TOKEN, e.g. Metadata-Flavor=Google.
  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT: The project number associated with the workforce pools user project.

To generate a URL-sourced SAML configuration, run the following command:

# Generate a SAML configuration file for file-sourced credentials.
gcloud iam workforce-pools create-cred-config \
    locations/global/workforcePools/$WORKFORCE_POOL_ID/providers/$PROVIDER_ID \
    --subject-token-type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:saml2 \
    --credential-source-url=$URL_TO_GET_SAML_ASSERTION \
    --credential-source-headers $HEADER_KEY=$HEADER_VALUE \
    --workforce-pool-user-project=$WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT \
    --output-file=/path/to/generated/config.json

These commands generate the configuration file in the specified output file.

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_ID: The workforce pool ID.
  • $PROVIDER_ID: The provider ID.
  • $URL_TO_GET_SAML_ASSERTION: The URL of the local server endpoint.
  • $HEADER_KEY and $HEADER_VALUE: The additional header key/value pairs to pass along the GET request to $URL_TO_GET_SAML_ASSERTION, e.g. Metadata-Flavor=Google.
  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT: The project number associated with the workforce pools user project.

Using Executable-sourced workforce credentials with OIDC and SAML

Executable-sourced credentials For executable-sourced credentials, a local executable is used to retrieve the 3rd party token. The executable must handle providing a valid, unexpired OIDC ID token or SAML assertion in JSON format to stdout.

To use executable-sourced credentials, the GOOGLE_EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_ALLOW_EXECUTABLES environment variable must be set to 1.

To generate an executable-sourced workforce identity configuration, run the following command:

# Generate a configuration file for executable-sourced credentials.
gcloud iam workforce-pools create-cred-config \
    locations/global/workforcePools/$WORKFORCE_POOL_ID/providers/$PROVIDER_ID \
    --subject-token-type=$SUBJECT_TOKEN_TYPE \
    # The absolute path for the program, including arguments.
    # e.g. --executable-command="/path/to/command --foo=bar"
    --executable-command=$EXECUTABLE_COMMAND \
    # Optional argument for the executable timeout. Defaults to 30s.
    # --executable-timeout-millis=$EXECUTABLE_TIMEOUT \
    # Optional argument for the absolute path to the executable output file.
    # See below on how this argument impacts the library behaviour.
    # --executable-output-file=$EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_FILE \
    --workforce-pool-user-project=$WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT \
    --output-file /path/to/generated/config.json

Where the following variables need to be substituted:

  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_ID: The workforce pool ID.
  • $PROVIDER_ID: The provider ID.
  • $SUBJECT_TOKEN_TYPE: The subject token type.
  • $EXECUTABLE_COMMAND: The full command to run, including arguments. Must be an absolute path to the program.
  • $WORKFORCE_POOL_USER_PROJECT: The project number associated with the workforce pools user project.

The --executable-timeout-millis flag is optional. This is the duration for which the auth library will wait for the executable to finish, in milliseconds. Defaults to 30 seconds when not provided. The maximum allowed value is 2 minutes. The minimum is 5 seconds.

The --executable-output-file flag is optional. If provided, the file path must point to the 3rd party credential response generated by the executable. This is useful for caching the credentials. By specifying this path, the Auth libraries will first check for its existence before running the executable. By caching the executable JSON response to this file, it improves performance as it avoids the need to run the executable until the cached credentials in the output file are expired. The executable must handle writing to this file - the auth libraries will only attempt to read from this location. The format of contents in the file should match the JSON format expected by the executable shown below.

To retrieve the 3rd party token, the library will call the executable using the command specified. The executable's output must adhere to the response format specified below. It must output the response to stdout.

Refer to the using executable-sourced credentials with Workload Identity Federation above for the executable response specification.

Security considerations

The following security practices are highly recommended:

  • Access to the script should be restricted as it will be displaying credentials to stdout. This ensures that rogue processes do not gain access to the script.
  • The configuration file should not be modifiable. Write access should be restricted to avoid processes modifying the executable command portion.

Given the complexity of using executable-sourced credentials, it is recommended to use the existing supported mechanisms (file-sourced/URL-sourced) for providing 3rd party credentials unless they do not meet your specific requirements.

You can now use the Auth library to call Google Cloud resources from an OIDC or SAML provider.

Using External Identities

External identities (AWS, Azure and OIDC-based providers) can be used with Application Default Credentials. In order to use external identities with Application Default Credentials, you need to generate the JSON credentials configuration file for your external identity as described above. Once generated, store the path to this file in the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/config.json

The library can now automatically choose the right type of client and initialize credentials from the context provided in the configuration file.

async function main() {
  const auth = new GoogleAuth({
    scopes: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'
  });
  const client = await auth.getClient();
  const projectId = await auth.getProjectId();
  // List all buckets in a project.
  const url = `https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b?project=${projectId}`;
  const res = await client.request({ url });
  console.log(res.data);
}

When using external identities with Application Default Credentials in Node.js, the roles/browser role needs to be granted to the service account. The Cloud Resource Manager API should also be enabled on the project. This is needed since the library will try to auto-discover the project ID from the current environment using the impersonated credential. To avoid this requirement, the project ID can be explicitly specified on initialization.

const auth = new GoogleAuth({
  scopes: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform',
  // Pass the project ID explicitly to avoid the need to grant `roles/browser` to the service account
  // or enable Cloud Resource Manager API on the project.
  projectId: 'CLOUD_RESOURCE_PROJECT_ID',
});

You can also explicitly initialize external account clients using the generated configuration file.

const {ExternalAccountClient} = require('google-auth-library');
const jsonConfig = require('/path/to/config.json');

async function main() {
  const client = ExternalAccountClient.fromJSON(jsonConfig);
  client.scopes = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'];
  // List all buckets in a project.
  const url = `https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b?project=${projectId}`;
  const res = await client.request({url});
  console.log(res.data);
}

Security Considerations

Note that this library does not perform any validation on the token_url, token_info_url, or service_account_impersonation_url fields of the credential configuration. It is not recommended to use a credential configuration that you did not generate with the gcloud CLI unless you verify that the URL fields point to a googleapis.com domain.

Working with ID Tokens

Fetching ID Tokens

If your application is running on Cloud Run or Cloud Functions, or using Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), you will need to fetch an ID token to access your application. For this, use the method getIdTokenClient on the GoogleAuth client.

For invoking Cloud Run services, your service account will need the Cloud Run Invoker IAM permission.

For invoking Cloud Functions, your service account will need the Function Invoker IAM permission.

// Make a request to a protected Cloud Run service.
const {GoogleAuth} = require('google-auth-library');

async function main() {
  const url = 'https://cloud-run-1234-uc.a.run.app';
  const auth = new GoogleAuth();
  const client = await auth.getIdTokenClient(url);
  const res = await client.request({url});
  console.log(res.data);
}

main().catch(console.error);

A complete example can be found in samples/idtokens-serverless.js.

For invoking Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, you will need to pass the Client ID used when you set up your protected resource as the target audience.

// Make a request to a protected Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) resource
const {GoogleAuth} = require('google-auth-library');

async function main()
  const targetAudience = 'iap-client-id';
  const url = 'https://iap-url.com';
  const auth = new GoogleAuth();
  const client = await auth.getIdTokenClient(targetAudience);
  const res = await client.request({url});
  console.log(res.data);
}

main().catch(console.error);

A complete example can be found in samples/idtokens-iap.js.

Verifying ID Tokens

If you've secured your IAP app with signed headers, you can use this library to verify the IAP header:

const {OAuth2Client} = require('google-auth-library');
// Expected audience for App Engine.
const expectedAudience = `/projects/your-project-number/apps/your-project-id`;
// IAP issuer
const issuers = ['https://cloud.google.com/iap'];
// Verify the token. OAuth2Client throws an Error if verification fails
const oAuth2Client = new OAuth2Client();
const response = await oAuth2Client.getIapCerts();
const ticket = await oAuth2Client.verifySignedJwtWithCertsAsync(
  idToken,
  response.pubkeys,
  expectedAudience,
  issuers
);

// Print out the info contained in the IAP ID token
console.log(ticket)

A complete example can be found in samples/verifyIdToken-iap.js.

Impersonated Credentials Client

Google Cloud Impersonated credentials used for Creating short-lived service account credentials.

Provides authentication for applications where local credentials impersonates a remote service account using IAM Credentials API.

An Impersonated Credentials Client is instantiated with a sourceClient. This client should use credentials that have the "Service Account Token Creator" role (roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator), and should authenticate with the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform, or https://www.googleapis.com/auth/iam scopes.

sourceClient is used by the Impersonated Credentials Client to impersonate a target service account with a specified set of scopes.

Sample Usage

const { GoogleAuth, Impersonated } = require('google-auth-library');
const { SecretManagerServiceClient } = require('@google-cloud/secret-manager');

async function main() {

  // Acquire source credentials:
  const auth = new GoogleAuth();
  const client = await auth.getClient();

  // Impersonate new credentials:
  let targetClient = new Impersonated({
    sourceClient: client,
    targetPrincipal: '[email protected]',
    lifetime: 30,
    delegates: [],
    targetScopes: ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform']
  });

  // Get impersonated credentials:
  const authHeaders = await targetClient.getRequestHeaders();
  // Do something with `authHeaders.Authorization`.

  // Use impersonated credentials:
  const url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b?project=anotherProjectID'
  const resp = await targetClient.request({ url });
  for (const bucket of resp.data.items) {
    console.log(bucket.name);
  }

  // Use impersonated credentials with google-cloud client library
  // Note: this works only with certain cloud client libraries utilizing gRPC
  //    e.g., SecretManager, KMS, AIPlatform
  // will not currently work with libraries using REST, e.g., Storage, Compute
  const smClient = new SecretManagerServiceClient({
    projectId: anotherProjectID,
    auth: {
      getClient: () => targetClient,
    },
  });
  const secretName = 'projects/anotherProjectNumber/secrets/someProjectName/versions/1';
  const [accessResponse] = await smClient.accessSecretVersion({
    name: secretName,
  });

  const responsePayload = accessResponse.payload.data.toString('utf8');
  // Do something with the secret contained in `responsePayload`.
};

main();

Downscoped Client

Downscoping with Credential Access Boundaries is used to restrict the Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions that a short-lived credential can use.

The DownscopedClient class can be used to produce a downscoped access token from a CredentialAccessBoundary and a source credential. The Credential Access Boundary specifies which resources the newly created credential can access, as well as an upper bound on the permissions that are available on each resource. Using downscoped credentials ensures tokens in flight always have the least privileges, e.g. Principle of Least Privilege.

Notice: Only Cloud Storage supports Credential Access Boundaries for now.

Sample Usage

There are two entities needed to generate and use credentials generated from Downscoped Client with Credential Access Boundaries.

  • Token broker: This is the entity with elevated permissions. This entity has the permissions needed to generate downscoped tokens. The common pattern of usage is to have a token broker with elevated access generate these downscoped credentials from higher access source credentials and pass the downscoped short-lived access tokens to a token consumer via some secure authenticated channel for limited access to Google Cloud Storage resources.
const {GoogleAuth, DownscopedClient} = require('google-auth-library');
// Define CAB rules which will restrict the downscoped token to have readonly
// access to objects starting with "customer-a" in bucket "bucket_name".
const cabRules = {
  accessBoundary: {
    accessBoundaryRules: [
      {
        availableResource: `//storage.googleapis.com/projects/_/buckets/bucket_name`,
        availablePermissions: ['inRole:roles/storage.objectViewer'],
        availabilityCondition: {
          expression:
            `resource.name.startsWith('projects/_/buckets/` +
            `bucket_name/objects/customer-a)`
        }
      },
    ],
  },
};

// This will use ADC to get the credentials used for the downscoped client.
const googleAuth = new GoogleAuth({
  scopes: ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform']
});

// Obtain an authenticated client via ADC.
const client = await googleAuth.getClient();

// Use the client to create a DownscopedClient.
const cabClient = new DownscopedClient(client, cab);

// Refresh the tokens.
const refreshedAccessToken = await cabClient.getAccessToken();

// This will need to be passed to the token consumer.
access_token = refreshedAccessToken.token;
expiry_date = refreshedAccessToken.expirationTime;

A token broker can be set up on a server in a private network. Various workloads (token consumers) in the same network will send authenticated requests to that broker for downscoped tokens to access or modify specific google cloud storage buckets.

The broker will instantiate downscoped credentials instances that can be used to generate short lived downscoped access tokens which will be passed to the token consumer.

  • Token consumer: This is the consumer of the downscoped tokens. This entity does not have the direct ability to generate access tokens and instead relies on the token broker to provide it with downscoped tokens to run operations on GCS buckets. It is assumed that the downscoped token consumer may have its own mechanism to authenticate itself with the token broker.
const {OAuth2Client} = require('google-auth-library');
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Create the OAuth credentials (the consumer).
const oauth2Client = new OAuth2Client();
// We are defining a refresh handler instead of a one-time access
// token/expiry pair.
// This will allow the consumer to obtain new downscoped tokens on
// demand every time a token is expired, without any additional code
// changes.
oauth2Client.refreshHandler = async () => {
  // The common pattern of usage is to have a token broker pass the
  // downscoped short-lived access tokens to a token consumer via some
  // secure authenticated channel.
  const refreshedAccessToken = await cabClient.getAccessToken();
  return {
    access_token: refreshedAccessToken.token,
    expiry_date: refreshedAccessToken.expirationTime,
  }
};

// Use the consumer client to define storageOptions and create a GCS object.
const storageOptions = {
  projectId: 'my_project_id',
  authClient: oauth2Client,
};

const storage = new Storage(storageOptions);

const downloadFile = await storage
    .bucket('bucket_name')
    .file('customer-a-data.txt')
    .download();
console.log(downloadFile.toString('utf8'));

main().catch(console.error);

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. Each sample's README.md has instructions for running its sample.

Sample Source Code Try it
Adc source code Open in Cloud Shell
Authenticate Explicit source code Open in Cloud Shell
Authenticate Implicit With Adc source code Open in Cloud Shell
Compute source code Open in Cloud Shell
Credentials source code Open in Cloud Shell
Downscopedclient source code Open in Cloud Shell
Headers source code Open in Cloud Shell
Id Token From Impersonated Credentials source code Open in Cloud Shell
Id Token From Metadata Server source code Open in Cloud Shell
Id Token From Service Account source code Open in Cloud Shell
ID Tokens for Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) source code Open in Cloud Shell
ID Tokens for Serverless source code Open in Cloud Shell
Jwt source code Open in Cloud Shell
Keepalive source code Open in Cloud Shell
Keyfile source code Open in Cloud Shell
Oauth2-code Verifier source code Open in Cloud Shell
Oauth2 source code Open in Cloud Shell
Sign Blob source code Open in Cloud Shell
Verify Google Id Token source code Open in Cloud Shell
Verifying ID Tokens from Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) source code Open in Cloud Shell
Verify Id Token source code Open in Cloud Shell

The Google Auth Library Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Supported Node.js Versions

Our client libraries follow the Node.js release schedule. Libraries are compatible with all current active and maintenance versions of Node.js. If you are using an end-of-life version of Node.js, we recommend that you update as soon as possible to an actively supported LTS version.

Google's client libraries support legacy versions of Node.js runtimes on a best-efforts basis with the following warnings:

  • Legacy versions are not tested in continuous integration.
  • Some security patches and features cannot be backported.
  • Dependencies cannot be kept up-to-date.

Client libraries targeting some end-of-life versions of Node.js are available, and can be installed through npm dist-tags. The dist-tags follow the naming convention legacy-(version). For example, npm install google-auth-library@legacy-8 installs client libraries for versions compatible with Node.js 8.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be stable. The code surface will not change in backwards-incompatible ways unless absolutely necessary (e.g. because of critical security issues) or with an extensive deprecation period. Issues and requests against stable libraries are addressed with the highest priority.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

Please note that this README.md, the samples/README.md, and a variety of configuration files in this repository (including .nycrc and tsconfig.json) are generated from a central template. To edit one of these files, make an edit to its templates in directory.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE

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This repository is deprecated. All of its content and history has been moved to googleapis/google-cloud-node.
684
star
28

nodejs-firestore

Node.js client for Google Cloud Firestore: a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development.
JavaScript
612
star
29

google-oauth-java-client

Google OAuth Client Library for Java
Java
601
star
30

go-genproto

Generated code for Google Cloud client libraries.
Go
558
star
31

repo-automation-bots

A collection of bots, based on probot, for performing common maintenance tasks across the open-source repos managed by Google on GitHub.
TypeScript
545
star
32

api-linter

A linter for APIs defined in protocol buffers.
Go
540
star
33

python-aiplatform

A Python SDK for Vertex AI, a fully managed, end-to-end platform for data science and machine learning.
Python
524
star
34

nodejs-translate

Node.js client for Google Cloud Translate: Dynamically translate text between thousands of language pairs.
JavaScript
514
star
35

nodejs-pubsub

Node.js client for Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Ingest event streams from anywhere, at any scale, for simple, reliable, real-time stream analytics.
TypeScript
512
star
36

google-cloud-cpp

C++ Client Libraries for Google Cloud Services
C++
508
star
37

nodejs-vision

Node.js client for Google Cloud Vision: Derive insight from images.
TypeScript
497
star
38

google-api-java-client-services

Generated Java code for Google APIs
497
star
39

nodejs-bigquery

Node.js client for Google Cloud BigQuery: A fast, economical and fully-managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.
TypeScript
420
star
40

python-bigquery-pandas

Google BigQuery connector for pandas
Python
418
star
41

google-auth-library-ruby

Google Auth Library for Ruby
Ruby
417
star
42

python-bigquery-sqlalchemy

SQLAlchemy dialect for BigQuery
Python
411
star
43

google-auth-library-java

Open source Auth client library for Java
Java
400
star
44

python-dialogflow

This library has moved to https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-cloud-dialogflow
397
star
45

python-pubsub

Python
370
star
46

signet

Signet is an OAuth 1.0 / OAuth 2.0 implementation.
Ruby
364
star
47

nodejs-text-to-speech

Node.js client for Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
JavaScript
355
star
48

python-speech

This library has moved to https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-cloud-speech
355
star
49

python-storage

Python
339
star
50

google-cloud-php-storage

PHP
317
star
51

google-cloud-php-core

PHP
309
star
52

gapic-generator

Tools for generating API client libraries from API Service Configuration descriptions.
Java
303
star
53

cloud-trace-nodejs

Node.js agent for Cloud Trace: automatically gather latency data about your application
TypeScript
272
star
54

gapic-generator-go

Generate Go API client libraries from Protocol Buffers.
Go
236
star
55

gax-php

Google API Extensions for PHP
PHP
226
star
56

api-common-protos

A standard library for use in specifying protocol buffer APIs.
Starlark
221
star
57

google-cloud-datastore

Low-level, Protobuf-based Java and Python client libraries for Cloud Datastore. Check out google-cloud-java and google-cloud-python first!
Python
212
star
58

python-firestore

Python
205
star
59

nodejs-datastore

Node.js client for Google Cloud Datastore: a highly-scalable NoSQL database for your web and mobile applications.
TypeScript
196
star
60

google-cloud-rust

Rust
183
star
61

google-cloud-php-translate

PHP
182
star
62

github-repo-automation

A set of tools to automate multiple GitHub repository management.
TypeScript
172
star
63

cloud-debug-nodejs

Node.js agent for Google Cloud Debugger: investigate your code’s behavior in production
TypeScript
169
star
64

google-cloud-php-firestore

PHP
168
star
65

gapic-showcase

An API that demonstrates Generated API Client (GAPIC) features and common API patterns used by Google.
Go
165
star
66

java-bigtable-hbase

Java libraries and HBase client extensions for accessing Google Cloud Bigtable
Java
165
star
67

gax-java

This library has moved to https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/tree/main/gax-java.
162
star
68

python-vision

This library has moved to https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-cloud-vision
160
star
69

google-auth-library-python-oauthlib

Python
160
star
70

nodejs-logging

Node.js client for Stackdriver Logging: Store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
TypeScript
156
star
71

python-bigquery-dataframes

BigQuery DataFrames
Python
146
star
72

nodejs-tasks

Node.js client for Google Cloud Tasks: A fully managed service that allows you to manage the execution, dispatch and delivery of a large number of distributed tasks.
TypeScript
144
star
73

python-ndb

Python
144
star
74

common-protos-php

PHP protocol buffer classes generated from https://github.com/googleapis/api-common-protos
PHP
132
star
75

artman

Artifact Manager, a build and packaging tool for Google API client libraries.
Python
132
star
76

proto-plus-python

Beautiful, idiomatic protocol buffers in Python
Python
132
star
77

googleapis.github.io

The GitHub pages site for the googleapis organization.
HTML
131
star
78

nodejs-language

Node.js client for Google Cloud Natural Language: Derive insights from unstructured text using Google machine learning.
JavaScript
131
star
79

google-cloudevents

Types for CloudEvents issued by Google
JavaScript
130
star
80

python-analytics-data

Python
125
star
81

google-auth-library-swift

Auth client library for Swift command-line tools and cloud services. Supports OAuth1, OAuth2, and Google Application Default Credentials.
Swift
122
star
82

java-pubsub

Java
118
star
83

gapic-generator-python

Generate Python API client libraries from Protocol Buffers.
Python
116
star
84

nodejs-compute

Node.js client for Google Compute Engine: Scalable, High-Performance Virtual Machines
JavaScript
115
star
85

python-texttospeech

Python
111
star
86

nodejs-spanner

Node.js client for Google Cloud Spanner: the world’s first fully managed relational database service to offer both strong consistency and horizontal scalability.
TypeScript
111
star
87

python-translate

This library has moved to https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-cloud-translate
108
star
88

node-gtoken

🔑 Google Auth Service Account Tokens for Node.js
TypeScript
108
star
89

python-api-core

Python
107
star
90

java-bigquery

Java
105
star
91

google-cloud-php-vision

PHP
101
star
92

gax-nodejs

Google API Extensions for Node.js
TypeScript
100
star
93

nodejs-logging-winston

Node.js client integration between Stackdriver Logging and Winston.
TypeScript
100
star
94

python-logging

Python
99
star
95

go-sql-spanner

Google Cloud Spanner driver for Go's database/sql package.
Go
98
star
96

java-firestore

Java
96
star
97

java-storage

Java
95
star
98

nodejs-bigtable

Node.js client for Google Cloud Bigtable: Google's NoSQL Big Data database service.
TypeScript
91
star
99

nodejs-secret-manager

A cloud-hosted service that provides a secure and convenient tool for storing API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.
JavaScript
89
star
100

nodejs-automl

Node.js client for Google Cloud AutoML: Train high quality custom machine learning models with minimum effort and machine learning expertise.
TypeScript
87
star