GCP API call using a credential file for a service account

gcp_api_call_explicit_creds.py

# Doing an API call using some service account credentials

API_TO_HIT = "https://apikeys.googleapis.com/v2alpha1/projects/your-project-name/keys"

from google.auth.transport.requests import AuthorizedSession
from google.oauth2 import service_account

credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
    filename='/path/to/your_service_account_creds.json',
    scopes=['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform']
)

session = AuthorizedSession(credentials)
res = session.get(API_TO_HIT)

print(res, res.text)