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• Google Workspace offers developer products and tools to connect or extend Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Drive, and Chat, each with its own Google Cloud project for API configuration, authentication, and deployments.

• The Google Workspace API Overview in the Google Cloud console provides a central location for managing common Google Workspace API tasks.

• Getting started involves 5 key steps: creating a Google Cloud project, enabling necessary APIs, understanding authentication, configuring OAuth consent, and creating access credentials.

Google Workspace offers a wide range of developer products and tools that letyou connect your service with Google Workspace or extend Google Workspaceapps like Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Chat. EachGoogle Workspace app or integration has its own Google Cloud project where youconfigure APIs, set up authentication, and manage deployments.

In the Google Cloud console, theGoogle Workspace API Overview shows many common Google Workspace API tasks that you can complete elsewhere in theGoogle Cloud console. The Google Workspace APIs are gathered all in oneplace so that you can conveniently manage these APIs.

5 steps to get started

1. Create a Google Cloud project for yourGoogle Workspace app, extension, or integration.

2. Enable the APIs you want to usein your Google Cloud project.

3. Learn how authentication and authorization workswhen developing for Google Workspace.

4. Configure OAuth consent toensure users can understand and approve what access your app has to theirdata.

5. Create access credentials toauthenticate your app's end users or service accounts.

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