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Gemini Cookbook: Official Quickstarts

Google's official Gemini quickstarts: function calling, audio, File API, caching, code execution, embeddings, and Live API. Real Python code from the Google team.

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Module 1

Getting Started with Google GenAI SDK

Install the new Google GenAI SDK, initialize a client, send text and multimodal prompts, set system instructions, count tokens and configure generation parameters.

First Steps with the Gemini API

Install google-genai SDK, create a client, make your first generate_content call, explore system instructions, count_tokens, temperature parameters, and multimodal image input.

20 min

Module 2

Function Calling

Connect Python functions as model tools, explore automatic and manual calling modes, inspect chat history with FunctionCall/FunctionResponse, and understand FunctionDeclaration schemas.

Function Calling in the Gemini API

Pass functions as tools, enable automatic_function_calling in ChatSession, inspect FunctionCall/FunctionResponse history, and implement a manual calling loop.

20 min

Module 3

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Gemini Cookbook: Official Quickstarts

Getting Started with Google GenAI SDK

Function Calling

Working with Audio

File API

Context Caching

Code Execution

Embeddings

Live API