GCP Authentication

Hi . Thanks for asking!
You can create so called "secret input", by adding "isSecret": true to your input schema property.

Here is an arctile regarding this
https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development/actor-definition/input-schema/secret-input

Also there is already an GCP Actor in the Apify store, ill share it here just in case you would want to use it / get inspired by it 🙂
https://apify.com/vojtam/gcp-uploader

Hi Lukas, thank you for sharing this information! This is quite useful!!!

Hi Lukas,
I also found this option to set environment varibales for the actor:
https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development/programming-interface/environment-variables

Is using Actor input considered the best practise?

I would like to set the authentication key once and forget about it. (As we all do)

Hi , yes thats another option.
I would say if you just want to set it once and then not worry about it, I would go with the Environment variables. Secret Inputs are great if you want to release the Actor to store or if you plan to change the key often, but both approaches should achieve the same result. Hope it helps 🙂

Hi Lukas, that helps!!
Thank you for your insight

No problem, glad it helped 🙂.