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Accessing Google APIsfrom Python

+Wesley Chun / @wescpyDeveloper Advocate, Google

Spring 2015slides @ goo.gl/H1OCLP

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About Speaker• Software Engineer

– Google, Sun, Yahoo!, HP, ton of startups• Author

– "Core Python" books (corepython.com)• Teacher

– Teacher since 1983– BASIC, C, Unix, Python, math– All age levels

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About You and This Talk• Python developer• Interested in using Google APIs• Have a Google account (or will)

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Google APIs• Access to Google services• Integrate Google into YOUR apps• Two kinds

– Simple/public APIs– Authorized APIs

• From Python (+ Java, JavaScript, .NET, Objective-C, PHP, Dart, Go, Node.js, Ruby)

– developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/apis

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Google Developer Tools (APIs mostly middle-bottom)

Compute Engine

App Engine

Cloud Storage

Prediction

Trans late

Cloud DNS

Cloud SQL

Cloud Datastore

Big Query

CloudEndpoints

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Overall steps• Create Google account• Create/register an app

– Login– console.developers.google.com– Create project– Enable API(s)– Get credentials (both kinds)

• Install Client Library (pip install -U google-api-python-client)• Write (Python) app• DEMO (live... what could possibly go wrong?!?)• Detailed instructions @ wescpy.blogspot.com

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Thank You! Q&A+Wesley Chun

Developer AdvocateGoogle, Inc.

wesc+api@google.com@wescpy