[Python] Google API Python | ValueError: Authorized user info was not in the expected format,...

Traceback (most recent call last):
creds = Credentials.from_authorized_user_file('credent.json', SCOPES)
File "C:\Users\WINDOWS\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\google\oauth2\credentials.py", line 440, in from_authorized_user_file
return cls.from_authorized_user_info(data, scopes)
File "C:\Users\WINDOWS\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\google\oauth2\credentials.py", line 390, in from_authorized_user_info
raise ValueError(
ValueError: Authorized user info was not in the expected format, missing fields client_secret, client_id, refresh_token.


I created an OAuth Client ID, set the application type there to Desktop App, downloaded the json file, then tried to login (code below) and got an error, I entered the file, it is in this order (example below), later I removed 'installed' from json , the error is different now ValueError: Authorized user info was not in the expected format, missing fields refresh_token.

JSON EXAMPLE

{"installed":
{"client_id": "client_id_my",
"project_id": "projectname123",
"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
"auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
"client_secret": "SECRET",
"redirect_uris": ["http://localhost"]}
}


import os.path

from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.courses.readonly']


creds = Credentials.from_authorized_user_file('credent.json', SCOPES)

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