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# Google Play Console: set up API access with a service account

## Step 1: Create a service account
1. Open Google Developers Console (Google Cloud Console).
2. If you already have a project, select it from the drop-down; otherwise click Create project.
3. Select the Menu icon → IAM & Admin → Service Accounts → Create service account.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions and select Create.
5. Copy the service account's email address (e.g. accountName@project.iam.gserviceaccount.com).

## Step 2: Add the service account to Play Console
1. Open Play Console.
2. Select Users and permissions → Invite new User.
3. Paste the service account's email address.
4. Select the permissions needed for the report/API types this account will fetch.
5. Click Add user. The service account is added as a user on the developer account.

## Step 3: Call the API
1. Install the Play Developer API client library for your language.
2. Configure the code to use OAuth2 server-to-server authentication, requesting the relevant OAuth2 scope.
3. Issue authenticated API calls.

## End state
The service account appears in Play Console's Users and permissions list with the granted permission scope, and can authenticate server-to-server to the Play Developer API / Google Cloud Storage reports bucket without a human signing in interactively.

Source: vendor documentation (https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6135870) (doc date not shown on the article); fetched 2026-10-30; not observed in a live UI.

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