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Before you can send requests to Google Drive Activity API, you must notify Google about
your client and allow access to the API. You do this by using the
Google Cloud console to create a project, which is a named collection of settings
and API access information.
Set up your environment
To get started using Drive Activity API, you must create a project in the
Google Cloud console, enable the API, and create credentials.
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