Google OAuth 2.0 Service account with PHP and Google APIs

This sample code uses Google Service Accounts with PHP to get a list of users in a Google Apps Domain using the Admin Directory API.

To get started, install the Google API PHP library, create a Google Service account with domain-wide delegation and save the private JSON file in the same directory as your PHP application.

<?

  require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

  define('APPLICATION_NAME', 'Service Accounts Tutorial');
  define('SCOPES', implode(' ', array(
    Google_Service_Drive::DRIVE,
    Google_Service_Gmail::MAIL_GOOGLE_COM,
    Google_Service_Directory::ADMIN_DIRECTORY_USER_READONLY,
    Google_Service_People::USERINFO_EMAIL
  )));

  putenv('GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=private_key.json');
  date_default_timezone_set("Asia/India");

  $user = "amit@labnol.org";

  $client = new Google_Client();
  $client->useApplicationDefaultCredentials();
  $client->setApplicationName(APPLICATION_NAME);
  $client->setScopes(SCOPES);
  $client->setAccessType("offline");
  $client->setSubject($user);

  $service = new Google_Service_Directory($client);

  $optParams = array(
    'domain' => 'ctrlq.org',
    'maxResults' => 10,
    'orderBy' => 'email'
  );

  $results = $service->users->listUsers($optParams);

  print_r($results);

?>

Amit Agarwal is a web geek, solo entrepreneur and loves making things on the Internet. Google recently awarded him the Google Developer Expert and Google Cloud Champion title for his work on Google Workspace and Google Apps Script.

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