Retrieving Access Token using Service Account for PHP without using googleapis

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Retrieving Access Token using Service Account for PHP without using googleapis

This is a sample PHP script to retrieve the access token from Service Account of Google without using googleapis.

Sample script

<?php

$private_key = "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n###-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n"; // private_key of JSON file retrieved by creating Service Account
$client_email = "###"; // client_email of JSON file retrieved by creating Service Account
$scopes = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly"]; // Sample scope

$url = "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token";
$header = array("alg" => "RS256", "typ" => "JWT");
$now = floor(time());
$claim = array(
	"iss" => $client_email,
	"sub" => $client_email,
	"scope" => implode(" ", $scopes),
	"aud" => $url,
	"exp" => (string)($now + 3600),
	"iat" => (string)$now,
);
$signature = base64_encode(json_encode($header, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES)) . "." . base64_encode(json_encode($claim, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES));
$b = "";
openssl_sign($signature, $b, $private_key, "SHA256");
$jwt = $signature . "." . base64_encode($b);
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl_handle, [
    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array(
        "assertion" => $jwt,
        "grant_type" => "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer"
    ),
]);
$res = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
$obj = json_decode($res);
$accessToken = $obj -> {'access_token'};
print($accessToken . "\n");

// This is the script for testing the access token. The file list of the service account's Drive is retrieved using Drive API.
$curl_test = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_test, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?access_token=' . $accessToken);
curl_setopt($curl_test, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($curl_test);
print($response);

?>

References

• Using OAuth 2.0 for Server to Server Applications
• jwt.io
• I answered this sample script for this thread in Stackoverflow.

Thanks for writing this, it's very helpful!