Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API: Provides methods for detection, risk analysis, and de-identification ofprivacy-sensitive fragments in text, images, and Google Cloud Platformstorage repositories.

• Client Library Documentation

• Product Documentation

Quick Start

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

2. Enable billing for your project.

3. Enable the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API.

4. Setup Authentication.

Installation

Install this library in avirtualenv using pip.virtualenv is a tool tocreate isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one ofdependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

Withvirtualenv, it’s possible to install this library without needing systeminstall permissions, and without clashing with the installed systemdependencies.

Supported Python Versions

Python >= 3.6

Deprecated Python Versions

Python == 2.7.

The last version of this library compatible with Python 2.7 is google-cloud-dlp==1.1.0.

Mac/Linux

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env>source <your-env>/bin/activate<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-dlp

Windows

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env><your-env>\Scripts\activate<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-dlp

Preview

DlpServiceClient

from google.cloud importdlp_v2client =dlp_v2.DlpServiceClient()name = 'EMAIL_ADDRESS'info_types_element = {'name': name}info_types = [info_types_element]inspect_config = {'info_types': info_types}type_ = 'text/plain'value = 'My email is example@example.com.'items_element = {'type': type_, 'value': value}items = [items_element]response = client.inspect_content(inspect_config, items)

Next Steps

• Read theClient Library Documentation for Cloud Data Loss Prevention(DLP) API to see other available methods on the client.

• Read theProduct documentation tolearn more about the product and see How-to Guides.