How To Generate an API Key for Google Translate

How To Generate an API Key for Google Translate

In this article we’ll see how to obtain an API Key to be able to use Google Cloud Translate, but the process is the same if we want to obtain an API Key for another Google Cloud service

How to Create a New Account in Google Cloud Console

The first thing you need is an account in Google Cloud Console and a payment method in it. 

1. Access the Google Cloud Console and log in or, if you do not have an account yet, sign up.

2. Open the left side menu of the console and select Billing.

3. Click on the button New billing account. Keep in mind that if this is not your first billing account, you must first open the list of billing accounts. To do this, click on the name of your existing billing account near the top of the page and then click on Manage billing accounts.

4. Enter the name of the billing account and your billing information. The options you’ll see depend on the country of your billing address.

5. Click Submit and enable billing.

By default, the person creating the billing account is a billing administrator for the account. Once you have the account created and the billing information ready, you can continue with the following steps to obtain the API Key.

How to Create a New Project in Google Cloud

6. Go to the bar in the top of the window and in the drop-down you can see your created projects as well as the option to create a new one by clicking on the New Project button:

7. Now give the new project a name and create it by clicking on the corresponding button, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Activate the Google Translate API

Before you can use a Google API in your project, you have to activate it.

8. Go to the side menu and select the APIs & Services option. Click Dashboard:

9. Click on the upper button Enable APIs and services to continue.

10. In the Search bar, type "Translate". Click "Cloud Translation API"

11. Click the "Enable" button.

Create a new API Key for Google Translate

12. Using the side menu bar within the Project, Click "Credentials"

Please read the next step carefully

13. On the Credential Screen, use the DROP-DOWN arrow to the right of "Create credentials." Select API KEY option.

14. A new Key API is created. Copy the key and provide it your OCR representative.




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