Integrating Google’s Gemini API in Laravel is Super Easy

Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash

Hello Developers! Today, we will see how to integrate Google’s Gemini API in Laravel. We are going to use the Gemini 1.5 Flash model from Google’s Gemini Family.

According to Google, Gemini 1.5 Flash is a fast and versatile multimodal model for scaling across diverse tasks. You can read more about this model here.

Prerequisites

I am assuming you have already setup your Laravel project or you can setup a new one using the following command.

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 1: Obtain the Google API key

First, you need to obtain the Google API key from Google AI Studio. You can follow these steps:

1. Open Google AI Studio
   Open this link in new tab.
2. Create an API Key
   There, you will find a button labeled Create API key. Click on it.
3. Select Existing Project
   A popup will be opened to select your existing Google Cloud Projects. Select the project in which you want to create an API key.
4. Create a New Project (if needed)
   If you don’t have any existing Google Cloud Project. You will see another button there labeled Create API key in new project. Click on it.