What is Google Cloud API?
What is Google Cloud API?
The following points are covered in this article:
- What is API?
- What is Google Cloud API?
- How you can enable API in your project?
- A small list of Available APIs.
What is API?
API stands for an application programming interface. It establishes the correlation between multiple software intercessors. It defines the norms that need to be followed, how to connect the two software, etc. Users can modify the existing functionality in their way. A few APIs are documented others provide extensions so that you modify and update the functionality on your own.
What is Google Cloud API?
Google Cloud API is the most essential part of the Google Cloud Platform. It allowing you to add power in your Google Cloud Platform.
You are allowed to access Cloud APIs with the help of server application with their client libraries in several popular programming languages, from mobile apps through the Firebase SDKs or by using third party clients. The same services can be ingress through our SDK command-line tools and Google Cloud Console web UI.
Two models are used by Google Cloud through which you can use Google API. The first is the REST model that is used for small minority APIs. In the model, the client cannot construct the API from other information they can only use the API. It the simplest APIs. Many other technologies are invented to use the REST APIs. The second model is used is gRPC in this HTTP is not exposed to API designer. You don’t need to worry about how the client and server are mapped. Therefore, a huge number of our client libraries use the gRPC model to provide you the better performance when you use that API.
Sample of how to create a project, enable an API, and how to download appropriate credentials. There are some steps that you need to follow to set up an API:
- Type console.developers.google.com. The first page to be visible in this way.
- Click on the create project and make a new project. You can also edit a project id. Click on create and your first project creation is done.
- The next step is the enable the API you want to whether it is of YouTube, drive, etc.
- Click on enable and now your project is ready to API
- After enabling the API, the last step is to complete the configuration in which two options are available such as to use this API externally or internally. You can set up in any way.
A small list of available APIs.
| App Engine Admin API | It manages the App Engine Application. |
| Compute Engine API | It designs and runs virtual machines on Google Cloud |
| Cloud Function API | It manages the lightweight user-provided function which is executed in events response. |
| Cloud DNS API | It serves and also configures the authoritative DNS records. |
| BigQuery API | It creates, manages, shares, and queries data. |
| Cloud Task API | Through this, we can manage a large number of delivery of distributive data. |
| Cloud Build API |
It uses in building the images and the artifacts on Google Cloud. |
This is just a small list of API. To know more about available API and where they are used you can go to the link given below.
