# Enable Google Translate API

# Written Walkthrough

To use the Google Translate feature across various modules on your site, such as translating product information in the eCommerce module, or page content, you will need to enable the Cloud Translation API in your Google Cloud account.


 1. Navigate to your Google Cloud Dashboard by following this link: <https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard>  
 2. In the top-left corner, click on the hamburger menu icon represented by the 3 horizontal lines.  
 3. In the slide-out navigation shade, hover your mouse over **APIs & Services** then click on the **Enabled APIs & Services** link.  
 4. At the top of the screen, click on the **Enable APIs and services** button.  
 5. In the search box at the top of the page, type in “translation”.

    
 6. In the search results page, click on **Cloud Translation API.**  
 7. On the **Cloud** **Translation API** page, click on the **Enable** button.

    
:::info
    If the blue button enable button says “Manage”, you already have this API enabled.  
      
    If you have already enabled other Google API keys (e.g. Google Maps APIs), google translate will now function using the existing API key you have already created. If not, continue with the following steps.

    :::
 8. If this is the first API you have enabled, a popup will appear with your API key, you can ignore this for now. You will also see a Protect your API key option, click on **Maybe later.** We will be configuring this later.  
 9. In the top-left corner, click on the hamburger menu icon represented by the 3 horizontal lines.

    
10. In the slide-out navigation shade, hover your mouse over **APIs & Services** then click on the **Credentials** link.  
11. Click on your newly created **Google Cloud Translate API Key** link **under API Keys**.

    
12. Under **API restrictions** choose the **Don’t restrict key** option.

    
13. Under **Application restrictions** choose the **IP Addresses** option.

    
14. Click the **Add** button that appears under **IP address restrictions**


:::tip
You will be supplied the required IP address via email from REM Support

:::


15. When done, click on **Save** at the bottom.  
16. Finally, click on the **Show key button** beside your **Google Cloud Translate API Key.** In the popup window, click on the **copy icon** to the right of the key. 

    


:::info
Make sure to *only* provide this key to REM via the *copy link option*. The font used sometimes makes it difficult to extract the key value from screenshots.

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