LLM API Integration Demo

A simple Python script demonstrating basic integration with Google Gemini's free API.

Setup

Get a free API key:
- Visit Google AI Studio
- Create a free API key for Gemini
Install dependencies:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Configure API key:

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env and replace 'your_gemini_api_key_here' with your actual API key

Usage

Run the script:

python main.py

The script will make a request to Google Gemini API and print a greeting response.

Features

✅ Secure API key handling via environment variables
✅ Basic error handling for network and API errors
✅ Timeout protection
✅ Clear error messages

Security

API keys are stored in .env file (not tracked by git)
Environment variables loaded using python-dotenv
No hardcoded secrets in source code

Demo

Expected output:

Making request to Gemini API...

LLM Response:
Hello! I'm Gemini, a friendly AI assistant created by Google. I'm here to help you with a wide variety of tasks...

Arjunheregeek / 01-basic-llm-api-client