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The primary reason applications query the service-accounts/ endpoint is to obtain an access token for authenticating to Google APIs (e.g., Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub).

For a non‑default account, replace default with the full email (URL‑encoded if necessary). Pub/Sub). For a non‑default account

"email": "your-service-account-email@your-project-id.iam.gserviceaccount.com", "aliases": [ "default", "your-service-account-email@your-project-id.iam.gserviceaccount.com" ], "scope": "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform" "aliases": [ "default"

In GCP, a service account is a special type of account that allows your application to interact with GCP resources without needing to authenticate with a user account. Service accounts are used to authorize access to resources, such as Cloud Storage buckets, Cloud Datastore, or Cloud Pub/Sub topics. such as Cloud Storage buckets