How to get a GCP Bearer token programmatically with python

Question

gcloud auth print-access-token gives me a Bearer token that I can use later on; however, this is a shell command. How would I obtain one programmatically via t

Answer 1

This may not be the recommended way but for Rest API in my application this was an easy way to get the token.

from subprocess import PIPE, Popen


def cmdline(command):
    process = Popen(
        args=command,
        stdout=PIPE,
        shell=True
    )
    return process.communicate()[0]


token = cmdline("gcloud auth application-default print-access-token")
print("Token:"+token)