Get started

Google APIs are consumed from Google Cloud projects. This guide walks through the process of creating a Google Cloud Project, enabling the OR API in such a project, and obtaining an API key to call the API endpoints.

1. Create a Google Cloud project

   Using a Google hosted account, create a project in the Google Cloud console. If the solver you intend to use is under a trusted tester program, follow this guide first.

2. Enable the API

   • Navigate to the APIs library.

   • Click "Enable".

3. Get an API key

   • Navigate to the credentials menu.

   • Click "+ CREATE CREDENTIALS"

   • Select API key

   • Save the API key in a credentials.json file with the following body

     {
       "key": "your_api_key"
     }