Hands-On Python Deep Learning for the Web

Creating a GCP service account

A GCP service account manages the permissions provided to access a GCP resource. The Dialogflow agent we created was a GCP resource and so to use it from the Python API, we'll need a service account:

1. In the GCP console, from the left-hand side navigation menu, go to APIs | Services | Credentials.
2. Click the Create credentials button to get the following options:

3. Click on Service account key. In the page that comes up next, select Dialogflow Integrations as the service account and JSON as the key type. After clicking Create, a JSON file is downloaded to your computer.
4. Note down the address of this JSON file—for ...