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With gcloud-node

With gcloud-node it's incredibly easy to get authenticated and start using Google's APIs. You can set your credentials on a global basis as well as on a per-API basis. See each individual API section below to see how you can auth on a per-API-basis. This is useful if you want to use different accounts for different Google Cloud services.

var config = {
  projectId: 'grape-spaceship-123',
  keyFilename: '/path/to/keyfile.json'
};

var gcloud = require('gcloud')(config);

The config object

A config object requires the following properties:

  1. projectId

If you wish, you can set an environment variable (GCLOUD_PROJECT) in place of specifying this inline.

  1. One of the following:
  2. config.credentials object containing client_email and private_key properties.
  3. config.keyFilename path to a .json, .pem, or .p12 key file.
  4. GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable with a full path to your key file.

Note: When using a .pem or .p12 key file, config.email is also required.