Request had invalid authentication credentials. Expected OAuth 2 access token error in cloud speech api

Question

i have followed the google cloud speech api quickstart of requesting api by using

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) \
     https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/speech:recognize \
     -d @sync-request.json

and following link but i got error of

{
  "error": {
    "code": 401,
    "message": "Request had invalid authentication credentials. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.",
    "status": "UNAUTHENTICATED"
  }
}

What should i do now?

Thanx in advance

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 11 '18 at 17:59

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It could be that The Application Default Credentials are not available

Try to login by running

gcloud auth application-default login

And follow the instructions, reference: gcloud auth application-default login

If you want to make sure the authentication process went well, run:

gcloud auth application-default print-access-token

You should see an access token, reference gcloud auth application-default print-access-token

answered Feb 11 '18 at 17:59

Samir Aleido

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hi i have implemented google cloud vision api and followed this link https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/how-to upto OCR .API works fine but i want to implement cloud speech api as well . that can return real time audio streaming results in json format...but i am new to GCP.. I AM afraid ..if i set up cloud speech api then does it affect previous vision OCR setup ? – Patel Feb 13 '18 at 11:45
It should not affect if you are using the same account for both APIs. – Samir Aleido Feb 13 '18 at 15:01
Basically what `gcloud auth application-default login` does is acquiring credentials to make it available to the applications in your local machine to use when they are configured to use **Application Default Credentials** – Samir Aleido Feb 13 '18 at 15:02
What package/language you use for your OCR setup? – Samir Aleido Feb 13 '18 at 15:02
You can use a service account as explained in the [Vision API docs for Client Libraries](https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/reference/libraries#setting_up_authentication). – Guillem Xercavins Feb 19 '18 at 10:14
thank you now i can access cloud firestore via rest – Akif Kara May 14 '21 at 00:58

score 16 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 13 '18 at 20:12

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I fixed the problem by logging out, and logging in to agree to some new terms and conditions google have made since last time I used google clouds (firebase in my case).

edited Dec 13 '18 at 20:12

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answered Dec 13 '18 at 19:19

Asbis

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you mean console logout ? – Balaji Boggaram Ramanarayan Apr 21 '19 at 18:39
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I got the error code using firebase in terminal. I logout from firebase through terminal: firebase logout and then firebase login – Asbis Apr 21 '19 at 19:03

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 18 '18 at 15:35

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Replace $(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) with what gets printed when you call the command.

answered Mar 18 '18 at 15:35

dkb

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That worked painlessly for me. – Tunneller Oct 18 '22 at 14:34

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 07 '21 at 09:36

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Make sure your date and time are correct and also your timezone is correct. This was how I solved this problem

answered Dec 07 '21 at 09:36

AyoAyomide

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Thanks, this was the issue in my case. – Om Infowave Developers May 25 '22 at 12:54

stevec · Answer 5 · 2021-03-17T02:29:02.763

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Samir's solution worked for me.

Just a reminder that if using other software interacting with GCP, you may have to restart software before the auth takes effect.

In my case, when using RStudio, I ran gcloud auth application-default login to authenticate, then command + shift + f10 to restart the R session, and then everything was good to go.

Some packages will have a function that refreshes the token in the current R session. For example the bigrquery library has bq_auth() which adds the new token to the R session (without needing to restart the session etc)

edited Mar 17 '21 at 02:29

answered Jul 22 '20 at 00:13

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I ran `gcloud auth application-default login` in terminal and got `bash: gcloud: command not found`. Do I have to install something first? – Sweepy Dodo Dec 02 '22 at 11:21
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@SweepyDodo yes, you need to install gcloud first – Dorklord Dec 10 '22 at 04:17

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 28 '21 at 17:21

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There is possibility that you have disabled auth. So

gcloud config set auth/disable_credentials false

answered Jan 28 '21 at 17:21

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 18 '21 at 19:19

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If you have changed the scopes assigned to the credentials since the last time you signed-in your client, make sure you sign in again to update the client tokens.

answered Dec 18 '21 at 19:19

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 13 '23 at 10:47

I had this error when using GCP CLI, so unrelated but maybe someone stumbles on this thread same as me.

I ran this command:

gcloud auth application-default login

after that, the error was still there, but then I ran second command

gcloud auth application-default print-access-token

CLI then prompted me to provide password, I did, and after that I was able to use GCP CLI again (I didn't use access token that was returned, simply re-entering password worked for me)

Request had invalid authentication credentials. Expected OAuth 2 access token error in cloud speech api

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