Service account info was not in the expected format, missing fields token_uri, client_email. about imagetotext

[zdavatz]

Solved, I had the wrong JSON file!

[e-sim-python]

Try this https://docs.gspread.org/en/latest/oauth2.html#for-bots-using-service-account

[HeleneRousseau]

How can we do when we have the json file but not under this format?

I have this file but no "private_key_id" nor 'private_key" nor "client_email" and I have "client_secret" instead of "client_x509_cert_url".

[ee1922]

@HeleneRousseau
Clicking the three dots on the action column, then selecting Manage Keys>Add key>Create New key will do the trick.

[Carleslc]

@masoudl Ensure you're following the Authentication steps to get your service account JSON credentials: https://github.com/Carleslc/ImageToText#authentication

It has this format:

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "imagetotext-***",
  "private_key_id": "***",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
\n***\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "imagetotext@imagetotext-***.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
  "client_id": "***",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/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/imagetotext%40imagetotext-***.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}

[masoudl]

Hi, can you give more detail on how you fixed it?
I am having the same problem.

[zdavatz]

Do you have the JSON file?

[cesarvspr]

@masoudl Ensure you're following the Authentication steps to get your service account JSON credentials: https://github.com/Carleslc/ImageToText#authentication

It has this format:

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "imagetotext-***",
  "private_key_id": "***",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
\n***\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "imagetotext@imagetotext-***.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
  "client_id": "***",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/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/imagetotext%40imagetotext-***.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}

:
Do you know where can I get this json?

[Carleslc]

How can we do when we have the json file but not under this format?

I have this file but no "private_key_id" nor 'private_key" nor "client_email" and I have "client_secret" instead of "client_x509_cert_url".

@HeleneRousseau Where and how have you got the file? Have you tried the convert.py script using your service account file? Does it give any error with the format?

[HeleneRousseau]

I get this file from the google cloud platform. I don't have any service account credential. I just have an OAuth Client (which now has been deleted according to the error message but that's another problem) and an API key. Ideally I would like to work only with an API key.

[demironmanx]

For OAuth 2.0 Client IDs use credentials.json as the file name. I used service_accounts.json for the OAuth 2.0 file name and was getting "MalformedError: Service account info was not in the expected format, missing fields client_email, token_uri." until I discovered it. For service account bots use service_account.json