How do we handle imports that require API keys to download a dataset? about data HOT 1 CLOSED

@rsned:
I think the only real option is that you would need to encrypt the values in a known JSON or protocol buffer format (something that could allow an api key, or a name/password pair, or related values) using a public key from datacommons (using something like PGP), and store the encrypted value. Then any tools that need to use that value would decrypt using the private key stored internally here.

@shifucun
one option is to use. the google cloud key manager https://cloud.google.com/ekm
Also you can use secret manager to access the key: https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager

This is an example how our website code access the datacommons api key: https://github.com/datacommonsorg/website/blob/master/server/services/datacommons.py#L43-L47

from data.