Server Side support?

[Marc Fargas Esteve]

Hi,

I was just wondering if this library could be used serverside (ie: running inside Node.js), I do not see a reason why it shouldn't but just wanted to be sure :)

Also, in such case, I guess there'd be no issue in using a Service Account, right?

thanks,

marc

[Killian Grant]

Anyone? I would like to know if a service account would work as well.

[Pat Hat]

I have the same question! Has anybody tried using the Google APIs client library for JavaScript in code running on a server where there is no user interaction (no user consent), using a Google Service Account?

[Kurt Freytag]

I have, and it works fine.

I have, however, encountered serious problems when trying to get the library (googleapis) to run within AWS Lambda. The number of dependencies googleapis requires is HUGE.

I was forced to back away from the library and write my own bare-bones module that uses the REST interface. In my case, however, I'm operating as a "Web Application", which means I've secured both readonly access to the user's analytics account but also the access_type 'offline'. With this, I need to go through verifying and possibly refreshing an access token before using it.

If you have a user using your app in real-time, you'll unlikely need to take this approach and my code wouldn't be helpful. That having been said, I'm planning to package it up, as it would've really helped me to have a Promisified REST library for the Google Analytics API.