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Document use of service acounts to programmatically interact with Google APIs #170

Closed hancush closed 8 months ago

hancush commented 3 years ago

When we need to interact programmatically with a Google API, we use service accounts. Let's write that down.

Relevant links:

SSCE issue: https://github.com/datamade/cps-ssce-dashboard/pull/206#issuecomment-769925264
Google documentation: https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts
Helpful blog post: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/02/an-easy-way-to-read-and-write-to-a-google-spreadsheet-in-python.html

Connects #178.