Obtaining API keys

Obtaining API keys#

Anthropic#

  1. Go to https://www.anthropic.com/api

  2. Sign up / login to the API console

  3. Click on ‘Get API Keys’

  4. Click on ‘Create Key’ and name it

  5. Copy it and you’re good to go!

The API key is something like: sk_1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef

You can export it as an environment variable like so:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your_api_key"

And pass it as an argument to the set_credentials function:

easytl.set_credentials("anthropic", os.environ["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"])

Azure#

  1. Go to https://portal.azure.com/

  2. Sign in to your Azure account

  3. Search for the service Translator, at Azure AI Services

  4. Click on Create

  5. Fill the form (choose Subscription, Resource group, Region, name and Tier)

  6. To to the resource when it finishes deploying

  7. Click on Keys and Endpoint

  8. Copy one of the keys, the region and the endpoint for Text Translation

The API key is something like: ‘1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef’ The region is something like: ‘eastus’ The endpoint is normally: ‘https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com/’

You can export them as environment vars like so:

export AZURE_API_KEY="your_api_key"
export AZURE_REGION="your_region"
export AZURE_ENDPOINT="your_endpoint"

And pass the key as an argument to the set_credentials function:

easytl.set_credentials(api_key=os.environ["AZURE_API_KEY"])

Warning

Make sure that you pass the region and the endpoint to the translate function:

easytl.azure_translate("Hello, world!", "en", "es", region=os.environ["AZURE_REGION"], endpoint=os.environ["AZURE_ENDPOINT"])

DeepL#

  1. Go to https://www.deepl.com/pro-api

  2. Sign up / login to your DeepL account

  3. Navigate to ‘API Keys’ section

  4. Click on ‘Create API Key’ and name it

  5. Copy the generated API key

The API key is something like: 12345678-1234-1234-1234-1234567890ab

You can export it as an environment variable like so:

export DEEPL_API_KEY="your_api_key"

Or you can pass it as an argument to the set_credentials function:

easytl.set_credentials("deepl", os.environ["DEEPL_API_KEY"])

Gemini and Google translate#

Gemini and Google Translate have some common steps

  1. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/

  2. Sign up / login to your Google Cloud account

  3. Create a new project or select an existing one

Now, for Gemini:

  1. Go to https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey

  2. Click on ‘Get API Key’

  3. Select your project from the dropdown

  4. Copy the key!

It looks something like: AIzaSyA_1234567890abcdefakubgkuae

You can export it as an environment variable like so:

export GEMINI_API_KEY="your_api_key"

And pass it as an argument to the set_credentials function:

easytl.set_credentials("gemini", os.environ["GEMINI_API_KEY"])

For Google Translate:

  1. From https://console.cloud.google.com/, go to the APIs & Services section

  2. Click on Enable APIs and Services

  3. Search for Cloud Translation API and enable it

  4. Go to Credentials and click on Create credentials

  5. Select Service account

  6. Fill the form and click on Done

  7. Click on the service account you just created

  8. Under the page Keys, click on Add Key and select JSON

  9. Store securely the JSON file

For using the translation service, you pass the path to the JSON file as an argument to the set_credentials function:

easytl.set_credentials("google translate", "path/to/your/credentials.json")

OpenAI#

  1. Go to https://platform.openai.com/

  2. Sign up / login to your OpenAI account

  3. Navigate to the ‘API Keys’ section

  4. Click on ‘Create new secret key’

  5. Copy the generated API key

The API key is something like: sk-1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef

You can export it as an environment variable like so:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_api_key"

And pass it as an argument to the set_credentials function:

easytl.set_credentials("openai", os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"])
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