ofek/pypinfo

`SystemError: Credentials could not be found.` without explanation for how to add credentials

jakelevi1996 opened this issue · 2 comments

jakelevi1996 commented

I tried running pypinfo for my package (as per these instructions) but I got an error SystemError: Credentials could not be found.. Running pypinfo -h shows there is an optional argument -a, --auth TEXT Path to Google credentials JSON file., but does not explain what format the credentials should be in, and I can't find any explanation in the usage examples. How do I authenticate?

hugovk commented

Run pypinfo -v to see if/where you have a credentials file set.

Installation instructions are at https://github.com/ofek/pypinfo#installation, click the toggle to expand.

The format is JSON, looks something like this:

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "<snip>",
  "private_key_id": "<snip>",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n<snip>\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "<snip>@<snip>.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
  "client_id": "<snip>",
  "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": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/<snip>.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}
jakelevi1996 commented

Thanks, makes sense, I didn't read that section of the README because I assumed it was about how to pip install/build the module from source, rather than how to add credentials. Maybe makes sense to rename that section in the README from "Installation" to "Authentication" or similar? Just a thought,