Try a Quickstart guide
To see what the API can do with minimal code, choose a Quickstart guide in your preferred language from the side navigation.
Learn the basics and common API tasks
- Start with your basic setup
- The prerequisite steps help you set up your account, enable your services, and create a project in the Google APIs Console.
- Set up your application's authorization
- The authorization information shows you how to set up your client's authorization using the OAuth 2.0 protocol.
- Pull all of this together and build an application using the API's two types of reports
-
- Activity reports list dated information for activities in a specific Google Workspace service. Some example reports are listed below. See the API reference for a complete list.
- Admin activity reports show administrator activities in the Admin console.
- Google Drive activity reports summarize how your account's users edit and view their Drive documents.
- Login activity reports summarize when your account's users log in and out.
- Mobile activity reports show activities in mobile devices managed by Google Mobile Management.
- Authorization Token activity reports show when your account's users allow or revoke authorization tokens.
- Usage reports help you customize and filter information about your account and your users.
- Customers usage reports list detailed Google Workspace service activities within your account.
- Users usage reports list detailed Google Workspace service activities across your account's users.
- Entities usage reports list detailed Google Workspace service activities related to entities used by your account's users.
- Activity reports list dated information for activities in a specific Google Workspace service. Some example reports are listed below. See the API reference for a complete list.
API reference
To look up a particular resource type or method, see the API reference.
API resources
For more API information, see the API issue tracker, the API experts' blog, and Apps administrators' help center.