## TL;DR

Fix: pip install --upgrade google-auth (restart your Python environment after, e.g. dbutils.library.restartPython() on Databricks).

## Steps

1. What was reported:
Issue googleapis/google-cloud-python#12254 (closed, 23 comments): I am experiencing an error with a Python script that has been working well since 2023. The script's main function is to extract sessions from Google Analytics 4 via the package google-analytics-data. However, after 7:30 AM PST on February 1, 2024, I received an error message stating that the 'Credentials' object has no attribute 'universe_domain'. 'universe_domain' is one of the attributes in the API key JSON file.

2. My script followed the guidance provided by Google in this link https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/quickstart-client-libraries (I copied the...

3. What works:
'Credentials' object has no attribute 'universe_domain' from google-analytics-data (or similar Google Cloud Python libs) is a stale google-auth problem. Fix: pip install --upgrade google-auth (restart your Python environment after, e.g. dbutils.library.restartPython() on Databricks). The reporter confirmed this cleared it.

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## Versions

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## Why this happens

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## Sources

- https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/quickstart-client-libraries