cookbook

Jupyter notebook tutorials for the Gemini API, from basics to Live API and agents

Stars: 17.8k
License: Apache-2.0
Last commit: Oct 2026
Language: Jupyter Notebook

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Overview

Official Google collection of Colab-ready notebooks for the hosted Gemini API. Quickstarts cover prompting, thinking levels, TTS, Live API, transcription, image, video and music generation, grounding, code execution, File Search and an Agents API. A separate Examples folder combines several features into larger use cases.

Who it is for: Developers learning to build on the Gemini API

Strengths

Maintained by Google; notebooks track new Gemini models and API features
Each quickstart has an Open in Colab link, so no local setup is required
Covers many modalities: text, speech, Live API, image, video, music, transcription
Apache-2.0 licensed with separate Quickstarts and Examples sections

Weaknesses

Requires a Google account and a Google AI Studio API key
All examples call the hosted Gemini API; nothing runs locally
Gemma and end-to-end demos live in separate repositories
Notebooks are tied to current Gemini model names and may go stale

What it needs

no GPU
Needs Gemini API key (Google AI Studio), Google account, Google Colab (optional)
Models: Gemini, Veo, Lyria, Nano-Banana

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Check the date: guides older than a year often use APIs that changed.
Prefer material with runnable notebooks or repos over slides.
Pick by level: curricula start from zero, cookbooks assume you already build.

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License in plain words

Apache-2.0 Permissive

Use it at work: Yes
Change it and rebrand it: Yes
Sell it or host it for others: Yes

Your part: Keep the notices and mark the files you change. It also grants you the contributors’ patent rights.

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