Required. The project in which the API key is created.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:
apikeys.keys.create
Query parameters
Parameters
keyId
string
User specified key id (optional). If specified, it will become the final component of the key resource name.
The id must be unique within the project, must conform with RFC-1034, is restricted to lower-cased letters, and has a maximum length of 63 characters. In another word, the id must match the regular expression: [a-z]([a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-06-26 UTC."],[[["\u003cp\u003eThis endpoint creates a new API key resource within a specified project, requiring the \u003ccode\u003eapikeys.keys.create\u003c/code\u003e IAM permission.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe API key creation utilizes a POST request to a URL using gRPC Transcoding syntax, where the parent project is defined as a path parameter.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eAn optional \u003ccode\u003ekeyId\u003c/code\u003e can be provided as a query parameter, adhering to specific RFC-1034 guidelines, while ensuring uniqueness and specific formatting rules are met within the project.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe request body must contain an instance of the Key resource, and a successful request will return an Operation resource within the response body.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eAuthorization for this operation requires the \u003ccode\u003ehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform\u003c/code\u003e OAuth scope.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Method: projects.locations.keys.create\n\n- [HTTP request](#body.HTTP_TEMPLATE)\n- [Path parameters](#body.PATH_PARAMETERS)\n- [Query parameters](#body.QUERY_PARAMETERS)\n- [Request body](#body.request_body)\n- [Response body](#body.response_body)\n- [Authorization scopes](#body.aspect)\n- [IAM Permissions](#body.aspect_1)\n- [Try it!](#try-it)\n\nCreates a new API key.\n\nNOTE: Key is a global resource; hence the only supported value for location is `global`.\n\n### HTTP request\n\n`POST https://apikeys.googleapis.com/v2/{parent=projects/*/locations/*}/keys`\n\nThe URL uses [gRPC Transcoding](https://google.aip.dev/127) syntax.\n\n### Path parameters\n\n### Query parameters\n\n### Request body\n\nThe request body contains an instance of [Key](/api-keys/docs/reference/rest/v2/projects.locations.keys#Key).\n\n### Response body\n\nIf successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of [Operation](/api-keys/docs/reference/rest/v2/operations#Operation).\n\n### Authorization scopes\n\nRequires the following OAuth scope:\n\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform`\n\nFor more information, see the [Authentication Overview](/docs/authentication#authorization-gcp).\n\n### IAM Permissions\n\nRequires the following [IAM](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs) permission on the `parent` resource:\n\n- `apikeys.keys.create`\n\nFor more information, see the [IAM documentation](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs)."]]
