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Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols

Reputation: 41

How to make a Gmail API app Internal without having a Google workspace account

I have developed a desktop app that uses the Gmail API to download emails from only my own Gmail account. When I try to make the app "Internal", I am told that I cannot do so, because I am not a Google workspace user. So I started the verification process and went thru the first step - the domain verification process. After this step, I received this email from [email protected]:

Hi, Thank you for your patience while we reviewed your project. It looks like your app is only used by the people in your domain, so your project doesn’t need to be verified. (Learn more about internal vs. public users). Note: internal use and personal use are different.

Applications for Internal Use If this is correct, please let us know by replying to this email. We'll then close your request, and you can update your project from public to internal by following these steps: Sign-in to Google Cloud Console Select the project ID: getEmails (id: getemails-354519) Go to OAuth Consent Screen under APIs & Services Go to User Type Select Make Internal Click Save**

But every time I try to make the app internal, I am prevented from doing so with the same message "Because you are not a Google Workspace user, you can only make your app available to external users".

How do I get around this Catch-22 situation? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1837

Answers (1)

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 117146

I have developed a desktop app that uses the Gmail API to download emails from only my own Gmail account. When I try to make the app "Internal", I am told that I cannot do so, because I am not a Google workspace user.

To set an app as internal you would need to have created that app on google cloud console using a user on your google worksapce domain. You can not set an app to internal if you have created it on a standard google gmail user.

So I started the verification process and went thru the first step - the domain verification process. After this step, I received this email from [email protected]:

If this app is being only used by you why would you want to verify it? verification is only needed when your going to have additional users then yourself.

But every time I try to make the app internal, I am prevented from doing so with the same message "Because you are not a Google Workspace user, you can only make your app available to external users".

Again you need to login and create the app from a user on your workspace domain not on a normal gmail user.

How do I get around this Catch-22 situation? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If its single user, and you don't have a workspace domain. Don't verify it there's no need to.

Upvotes: 0

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