Using YouTube Content ID API with Service Account authentication

[hyper7]

We are using the YouTube Content ID API with OAUTH 2.0 client id authentication, it's a bit messy using

InstalledAppFlow but it works fine. We are switching to a service account authentication, to simplify things. We created a service account, with a JSON key and we are receiving the error HttpStatus 403 Forbidden when trying to use an endpoint from YouTube Content ID API. We need to grant a special role or permission to the service account?

HttpError: <HttpError 403 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/partner/v1/assets?id=xxxx&onBehalfOfContentOwner=yyyy&alt=json returned "Forbidden">

Code used for the example:

from google.oauth2.service_account import Credentials as ServiceAccountCredentials
from googleapiclient import discovery

secrets_file = "keys.json"
service_name = "youtubePartner"
service_version = "v1"
scopes = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner"]
credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_service_account_file(
    secrets_file,
    scopes=scopes,
)
api = discovery.build(
    service_name,
    service_version,
    credentials=credentials,
    cache_discovery=False,
)
response = api.assets().list(id="xxxx", onBehalfOfContentOwner="yyyy").execute()

[AlexET · Accepted solution]

@hyper7 thanks for your question!

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