Rolling a Google Service Account JWT in Node.js without the googleapis package

1. 1Create a Google Service Account and generate a private key file
2. 2Read the private key file in your Node.js script
3. 3Use the jsonwebtoken package to generate a JWT token from the private key
4. 4Set the JWT token as the Authorization header in your API request
5. 5Call the Google Search Console URL Inspection API using the Node.js https module

Developers and DevOps engineers working with Google APIs and Node.js can benefit from this technique to authenticate and authorize API requests in their CI scripts

💡 Use a service account JWT to authenticate with Google APIs in Node.js for CI scripts

Authenticate with Google APIs in Node.js without googleapis package