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The one-minute experience: APIs Explorer

To play around and see what the API can do, without writing any code, visit the APIs Explorer. Instant gratification!

Learn the basics and common API tasks

Start with your basic setup

The prerequisite steps help you set up your account, enable your services, and create a project in the Google APIs Console.

Set up your application's authorization

The authorization information shows you how to set up your client's authorization using the OAuth 2.0 protocol.

Pull all of this together and build an application using the API's two types of reports

• Activity reports list dated information for activities in a specific G Suite service.
  • Admin activity reports show administrator activities in the Admin console.
  • Google Drive activity reports summarize how your account's users edit and view their Drive documents.
  • Login activity reports summarize when your account's users login and logout.
  • Authorization Token activity reports show when your account's users allow or revoke authorization tokens.
• Usage reports help you customize and filter information about your account and your users.
• Customers usage reports list detailed G Suite service activities within your account.
• Users usage reports list detailed G Suite service activities across your account's users.

API reference

To look up a particular resource type or method, see the API reference.

API resources

For more API information, see the API issue tracker, the API experts' blog, and Apps administrators' help center.