fredsa / hello-gemini-api

Hello, Gemini API.

Sample app showing how to access Gemini using the Gemini API.

Prerequisites

1. Download and install Go, see https://go.dev/. To determine the version of Go that is available on your path run:

   go version

2. [Optional] Install gcloud CLI, see https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install.

Prepare sample project

1. Clone this repo.

   git clone [e-mail]:fredsa/hello-gemini-api.git

2. Change into the project directory.

   cd hello-gemini-api

3. Install the github.com/google/generative-ai-go/genai package.

   go get github.com/google/generative-ai-go/genai

Authorize the app

1. Create API key from ai.google.dev.

2. Modify main.go to use this API key.

   const apiKey = "your-api-key"  // Keep safe.

3. Keep your API key safe.

Run the sample

1. Compile and run.

   go run main.go

   The output should look something like this

   >> Hello, who are you?
   I am a large language model, trained by Google.