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# Google Cloud Console: create an API key — APIs & Services → Credentials → Create credentials → API key

## Steps
1. Console → APIs & Services → "Credentials" page.
2. Click "Create credentials".
3. Select "API key".
4. Add at least one API key restriction (the console requires this; the REST API doesn't).
5. Click "Create".

## End state
The new API key is listed on the Credentials page with its restriction; requests made with it against a restricted API now succeed only for that restriction.

## Moved from
This guide's URL now resolves under docs.cloud.google.com; cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/api-keys 301-redirects there.

Source: vendor documentation as of 2026-10-27 (doc date not shown); not observed in a live UI.

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