Google Cloud APIs: projects, APIs Library, credentials, and quotas

Andrew Dorokhov schedule 1 min read

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Google has a lot of services and each service has its API.

We can distinguish two groups of APIs:

Group	Services
Google APIs	Gmail, Drive, YouTube.
Google Cloud Platform APIs	Datastore, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Compute Engine.

Documentation

Service	Description
Google Drive	open_in_new Docs .
YouTube	open_in_new Docs .

To work with Google API there is a lot of open_in_new official libraries .

For example, for PHP we have open_in_new googleapis/google-api-php-client . This library enables us to work with Google APIs such as Gmail, Drive or YouTube on our server.

To use another group of APIs, we can take open_in_new googleapis/google-cloud-php .

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