FYI the Python quickstart.py is broken on Ubuntu 18.04 (tried both python2 and python3). I've notified the eng in the video, and sent her here. By definition,

FYI the Python quickstart.py is broken on Ubuntu 18.04 (tried both python2 and python3). I've notified the eng in the video, and sent her here. By definition, credentials.json doesn't exist yet and this throws an error. Transcript below. creds = None if os.path.exists('token.pickle'): ... # If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in. if not creds or not creds.valid: if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token: ... else: flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file( 'credentials.json', SCOPES) creds = flow.run_local_server() https://developers.google.com/docs/api/quickstart/python https://developers.google.com/docs/api/quickstart/python $ sudo apt install python3-pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: grub-pc-bin libpython-all-dev libpython-dev libpython2.7 libpython2.7-dev python-all python-all-dev python-asn1crypto python-cffi-backend python-crcmod python-crypto python-cryptography python-dbus python-dev python-enum34 python-gi python-idna python-ipaddress python-keyring python-keyrings.alt python-secretstorage python-six python-wheel python-xdg python2.7-dev Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: python3-pip 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 114 kB of archives. After this operation, 599 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us-east4-c.gce.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu http://us-east4-c.gce.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 python3-pip all 9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1 [114 kB] Fetched 114 kB in 1s (175 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package python3-pip. 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Traceback (most recent call last): File "quickstart.py", line 47, in <module> main() File "quickstart.py", line 32, in main 'credentials.json', SCOPES) File "/home/asah/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google_auth_oauthlib/flow.py", line 171, in from_client_secrets_file with open(client_secrets_file, 'r') as json_file: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'credentials.json' $ cat quickstart.py from __future__ import print_function import pickle import os.path from googleapiclient.discovery import build from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow from google.auth.transport.requests import Request # If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle. SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.readonly' https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.readonly'] # The ID of a sample document. DOCUMENT_ID = '195j9eDD3ccgjQRttHhJPymLJUCOUjs-jmwTrekvdjFE' def main(): """Shows basic usage of the Docs API. Prints the title of a sample document. """ creds = None # The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is # created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first # time. if os.path.exists('token.pickle'): with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token: creds = pickle.load(token) # If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in. if not creds or not creds.valid: if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token: creds.refresh(Request()) else: print("InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file()...") flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file( 'credentials.json', SCOPES) creds = flow.run_local_server() # Save the credentials for the next run with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token: pickle.dump(creds, token) service = build('docs', 'v1', credentials=creds) # Retrieve the documents contents from the Docs service. document = service.documents().get(documentId=DOCUMENT_ID).execute() print('The title of the document is: {}'.format(document.get('title'))) if __name__ == '__main__': main()