Before you begin

This page shows how to create a Google Cloud project, enable the Live Stream API, create authentication credentials, and grant your account one or more IAM roles. This page also shows how to create a Cloud Storage bucket to hold the live stream output files and how to install an encoder to generate input streams that the API processes.

Create a project

  1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

  2. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  3. If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  4. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command: 

    gcloud init

  5. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

    • Create a Google Cloud project:

      gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

    • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

      gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

  6. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  7. Enable the Live Stream API: 

    gcloud services enable livestream.googleapis.com

  8. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account: 

    gcloud auth application-default login

    You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

    If an authentication error is returned, and you are using an external identity provider (IdP), confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  9. Grant roles to your user account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/livestream.editor 

    gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="user:USER_IDENTIFIER" --role=ROLE
    • Replace PROJECT_ID with your project ID.

    • Replace USER_IDENTIFIER with the identifier for your user account. For example, user:myemail@example.com.

    • Replace ROLE with each individual role.
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  10. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  11. If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  12. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command: 

    gcloud init

  13. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

    • Create a Google Cloud project:

      gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

    • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

      gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

  14. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  15. Enable the Live Stream API: 

    gcloud services enable livestream.googleapis.com

  16. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account: 

    gcloud auth application-default login

    You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

    If an authentication error is returned, and you are using an external identity provider (IdP), confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  17. Grant roles to your user account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/livestream.editor 

    gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="user:USER_IDENTIFIER" --role=ROLE
    • Replace PROJECT_ID with your project ID.

    • Replace USER_IDENTIFIER with the identifier for your user account. For example, user:myemail@example.com.

    • Replace ROLE with each individual role.
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Create a Cloud Storage bucket

Create a Cloud Storage bucket to hold the live stream manifest and segment files.

Google Cloud console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.

    Go to Buckets

  2. Click Create.
  3. On the Create a bucket page, enter your bucket information. To go to the next step, click Continue.
    1. In the Get started section, do the following:
      • Enter a globally unique name that meets the bucket naming requirements.
      • To add a bucket label, expand the Labels section (), click Add label, and specify a key and a value for your label.
    2. In the Choose where to store your data section, do the following:
      1. Select a Location type.
      2. Choose a location where your bucket's data is permanently stored from the Location type drop-down menu.
      3. To set up cross-bucket replication, select Add cross-bucket replication via Storage Transfer Service and follow these steps:

        Set up cross-bucket replication

        1. In the Bucket menu, select a bucket.

        2. In the Replication settings section, click Configure to configure settings for the replication job.

          The Configure cross-bucket replication pane appears.

          • To filter objects to replicate by object name prefix, enter a prefix that you want to include or exclude objects from, then click Add a prefix.
          • To set a storage class for the replicated objects, select a storage class from the Storage class menu. If you skip this step, the replicated objects will use the destination bucket's storage class by default.
          • Click Done.
    3. In the Choose how to store your data section, do the following:
      1. In the Set a default class section, select the following: Standard.
      2. To enable hierarchical namespace, in the Optimize storage for data-intensive workloads section, select Enable hierarchical namespace on this bucket.
    4. In the Choose how to control access to objects section, select whether or not your bucket enforces public access prevention, and select an access control method for your bucket's objects.
    5. In the Choose how to protect object data section, do the following:
      • Select any of the options under Data protection that you want to set for your bucket.
        • To enable soft delete, click the Soft delete policy (For data recovery) checkbox, and specify the number of days you want to retain objects after deletion.
        • To set Object Versioning, click the Object versioning (For version control) checkbox, and specify the maximum number of versions per object and the number of days after which the noncurrent versions expire.
        • To enable the retention policy on objects and buckets, click the Retention (For compliance) checkbox, and then do the following:
          • To enable Object Retention Lock, click the Enable object retention checkbox.
          • To enable Bucket Lock, click the Set bucket retention policy checkbox, and choose a unit of time and a length of time for your retention period.
      • To choose how your object data will be encrypted, expand the Data encryption section (), and select a Data encryption method.
  4. Click Create.

Command line

    Create a Cloud Storage bucket: 
    gcloud storage buckets create gs://BUCKET_NAME
     Replace BUCKET_NAME with a bucket name that meets the bucket naming requirements.

Install an encoder

To use the API, you need an encoder to generate input streams that the API processes.

Install ffmpeg as this page covers how to use ffmpeg to generate input streams. You can install this in Cloud Shell using the following command.

sudo apt install ffmpeg