Tech talk given at PyCon 2015 to introduce developers to integrating with Google APIs from Python ABSTRACT Ever wanted to integrate Google technologies into the web+mobile apps that you build? Did you know Google has various open source libraries that help you do exactly that, from Python? Users who may have tried & failed, run into roadblocks, been confused about using our APIs, or had issues are invited to come and check out a quick tech talk followed by demos on how to do it right!

1. Google Confidential and Proprietary
Accessing Google APIs
from Python
+Wesley Chun / @wescpy
Developer Advocate, Google
Spring 2015
slides @ goo.gl/H1OCLP
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About Speaker
• Software Engineer
– Google, Sun, Yahoo!, HP, ton of startups
• Author
– "Core Python" books (corepython.com)
• Teacher
– Teacher since 1983
– BASIC, C, Unix, Python, math
– All age levels

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About You and This Talk
• Python developer
• Interested in using Google APIs
• Have a Google account (or will)
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Google APIs
• Access to Google services
• Integrate Google into YOUR apps
• Two kinds
– Simple/public APIs
– Authorized APIs
• From Python(+ Java, JavaScript, .NET, Objective-C, PHP, Dart, Go, Node.js, Ruby)
– developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/apis

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Google Developer Tools (APIs mostly middle-bottom)
Compute
Engine
App
Engine
Cloud
Storage
Predic
tion
Trans
late
Cloud
DNS
Cloud
SQL
Cloud
Datastore
Big
Query
Cloud
Endpoints
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Overall steps
• Create Google account
• Create/register an app
– Login
– console.developers.google.com
– Create project
– Enable API(s)
– Get credentials (both kinds)
• Install Client Library (pip install -U google-api-python-client)
• Write (Python) app
• DEMO (live... what could possibly go wrong?!?)
• Detailed instructions @ wescpy.blogspot.com

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Thank You! Q&A
+Wesley Chun
Developer Advocate
Google, Inc.
wesc+api@google.com
@wescpy