Quick Start

• Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
• Enable billing for your project.
• Enable the Google Cloud APIs.
• Setup Authentication.

System requirements

• Operating systems:
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
• Python 2.7, or 3.4 or higher

Installing virtualenv

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Enabling APIs

gcloud services enable [SERVICE NAME]

Or go to the Cloud Console API Library

Installing the client library

• pip

$ pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

• setuptools

$ easy_install --upgrade google-api-python-client

• Manual installation

Download the latest client library for Python, unpack the code, and run python setup.py install