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This was mentioned as a reasonable feature request in the 17/09/2024 GDE call.

GEE is little by little becoming more and more integrated to Google Cloud. I guess that's the march of the world it would be foolish to fight against it. On the other hand this integrations have made the authentication more and more complicated.

The current status-quo is that to initialize an account, I need to fill the project name (unless I'm using a service account but that's related to another issue opened a long time ago: https://issuetracker.google.com/u/2/issues/325020447).

So to authenticate I run the following and then follow the instructions:

import ee

ee.Authenticate()

and to initialize I run this:

import ee 
ee.Initialize(project="ee-borntobealive")

Once I'm in I can crowl my files either using vanilla ee.Data methods or my little wrapper geetools:

root_folder = ee.Asset("projects/ee-geetools/assets/folder")
content = asset.iterdir(recursive=True)

Now the missing link is how can I list the project that I have access to the same way I'm listing them in the code editor? It seems the only available way is to install the whole Google cloud suit and then search for them using the following code:

import ee 
from google.cloud.resourcemanager import ProjectsClient

list_items = [p.project_id for p in ProjectsClient().search_projects() if "earth-engine" in p.labels]  
list_items = [{"id": f"projects/{i}/assets", "name": i} for i in list_items]

My problem is that installing gcloud in itself is extremely complicated in a pure python environment as it requires sudo rights to install the CLI (which most of my users don't have). Considering that the only thing we need is the name of the said projects could this be integrated to the more user friendly earthengine-api package ? As everything after that can already be done from gee api I think the only missing piece it an interface to list my earthengine projects (as I'm authenticated).