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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.
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.
Enable the API
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"
}
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Last updated 2024-08-06 UTC.
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