'Credentials' object has no attribute 'universe_domain' in package google-analytics-data URI

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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 'universedomain'. 'universedomain' is one of the attributes in the API key JSON file.

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...

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.

In the GitHub issue, the reporter asked: 'Credentials' object has no attribute 'universedomain' in package google-analytics-data URI. The working answer that came out of the thread: 'Credentials' object has no attribute 'universedomain' 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. Source: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/12254