Method: projects.serviceAccounts.getIamPolicy

Gets the IAM policy that is attached to aServiceAccount. This IAM policy specifies which principals have access to the service account.

This method does not tell you whether the service account has been granted any roles on other resources. To check whether a service account has role grants on a resource, use thegetIamPolicy method for that resource. For example, to view the role grants for a project, call the Resource Manager API'sprojects.getIamPolicy method.

HTTP request

POST https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/{resource=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:getIamPolicy

The URL usesgRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
resource

string

REQUIRED: The resource for which the policy is being requested. SeeResource names for the appropriate value for this field.

Query parameters

Parameters
options

object (GetPolicyOptions)

OPTIONAL: AGetPolicyOptions object for specifying options toserviceAccounts.getIamPolicy.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance ofPolicy.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/iam
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see theAuthentication Overview.

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Last updated 2025-05-21 UTC.