Error using geemap in ArcPy "AttributeError: module 'ee.data' has no attribute '_credentials"

[gitmax-amazing]

I set up a python conda environment in ArcGIS to download Landsat collections using Google Earth Engine and I am running into this issue just when calling

Map = geemap.Map()

I get this error

`Cell In[19], line 3
1 ee.Initialize()
2 ee.Authenticate()
----> 3 Map = geemap.Map()

File ~\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\max_arcpy_env\Lib\site-packages\geemap\geemap.py:158, in Map.init(self, **kwargs)
156 self._USER_AGENT_PREFIX = "geemap"
157 self.kwargs = kwargs
--> 158 super().init(**kwargs)
159 self._var_name = "Map" # The Map variable name for converting JS to Python
161 if kwargs.get("height"):

File ~\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\max_arcpy_env\Lib\site-packages\geemap\core.py:753, in Map.init(self, **kwargs)
751 # Authenticate and initialize EE.
752 if kwargs.get("ee_initialize", True):
--> 753 coreutils.ee_initialize(user_agent_prefix=self._USER_AGENT_PREFIX)
755 # Listen for layers being added/removed so we can update the layer manager.
756 self.observe(self._on_layers_change, "layers")

File ~\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\max_arcpy_env\Lib\site-packages\geemap\coreutils.py:75, in ee_initialize(token_name, auth_mode, auth_args, user_agent_prefix, project, **kwargs)
72 user_agent = f"{user_agent_prefix}/{version}"
73 ee.data.setUserAgent(user_agent)
---> 75 if ee.data._credentials is not None:
76 return
78 ee_token = get_env_var(token_name)

AttributeError: module 'ee.data' has no attribute '_credentials'`

It seems like an authentication error, but my other GEE code runs, and when I pass ee.Authorize() it comes back true. Not sure what the problem could be! Thanks for reading.

[michelmetran]

I'm having the same problem.

I'm using a Jupyter Notebook, with a conda environment and updated packages.
I'm using Windows, without ArcGIS.

ee version 1.6.12
geemap version 0.36.4

.. 'll follow along to see if I can find a solution.

[bbennett00]

I'm also having a similar problem. I've created new environments as well. Up until this point, geemap was working fine.

[josephshea]

same issue here! GEE was working in an older environment, but I did a fresh install and now ee.Authenticate() returns "True", and the ee.Initialize("project_name") seems to run, but I get the same error when I try to create a map instance:

m = geemap.Map()

.....
AttributeError: module 'ee.data' has no attribute '_credentials'

[ImmaSerra]

I got the same error

[Jack-ee]

Try Map = geemap.Map(ee_initialize=False)

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[josephshea]

That works! But now it has to be added to every map instance?

[giswqs]

Try updating the ee package using pip install -U earthengine-api

[michelmetran]

Thanks for the help!
I updated all the packages, instantiated a new conda environment, and... it worked!!

Hugs from Brazil!

[jdbcode]

The latest couple of geemap and Earth Engine client library releases were out of sync. To fix your environments, upgrade geemap to 0.36.6 or greater, which should force the upgrade of earthengine-api to >= 1.6.12 to get them back in sync.

See #2321

For pip:

pip install --upgrade geemap==0.36.6

For conda (conda-like):

conda install -c conda-forge geemap=0.36.6