UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line

I get the above error when I try initializing the drive with the jwt token. Below’s my implementation. the keys are valid and I downloaded the file from the google developer console.

...
const jwtClient = new google.auth.JWT({                                          
  email: secret.client_email,                                                    
  key: secret.private_key,                                                       
  scopes                                                                         
})                                                                               

const drive = google.drive({                                                     
  version: 'v3',                                                                 
  auth: jwtClient                                                                
})   

function workspace () {                                                          
  return new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => {                                
    const folder = await findFolder(workDir)                                     
    if (folder) return resolve(folder)                                           
     return createFolder(workDir)                                                 
       .then(({ data }) => resolve(data))                                         
        .catch(err => reject(err))                                                 
   })                                                                             
} 
...

const cwd = await workspace()
console.log(cwd)

workDir is a variable holding a reference to a string with the name of a working directory.

The weird thing is that this was working last week but then it stopped working for some reason.

[bradwbradw]

i was using .env as well and this problem happened to me. To fix, I just had to wrap the value in the .env file in double quotes. Hope it helps someone.

NODE_ENV=production
API_KEY=abc
GOOGLE_API_KEY="-----BEGIN PRIVATE ... asdfasdf\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n"

(edit) the other thing that just happened when going to prod was that something between the ENV var setting and the app replaced all \n with \\n, so i just had to do:

googleApiKey = _.replace(process.env.GOOGLE_API_KEY, new RegExp("\\\\n", "\g"), "\n")

[fontumi]

i was using .env as well and this problem happened to me. To fix, I just had to wrap the value in the .env file in double quotes. Hope it helps someone.

NODE_ENV=production
API_KEY=abc
GOOGLE_API_KEY="-----BEGIN PRIVATE ... asdfasdf\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n"

(edit) the other thing that just happened when going to prod was that something between the ENV var setting and the app replaced all \n with \\n, so i just had to do:

googleApiKey = _.replace(process.env.GOOGLE_API_KEY, new RegExp("\\\\n", "\g"), "\n")

THANK YOU!