Manage Existing API Keys

If you need to access your existing Google API keys, you can access them from your Google Cloud Dashboard by following the steps below.

Finding your Existing API Key

  1. Access your Google Cloud Dashboard


  2. In the side navigation click on the Credentials link.

    Typically, you will only have a single API key that shares access to all Google Cloud services. If you have more than one API Key, you will need to determine which one has access to the required Google Cloud services.

  3. You can view your API key directly from the credentials list by clicking on the SHOW KEY button beside the credential item.

Configuring your Existing API Key

Your API key should be setup following certain parameters to work correctly with your site.


  1. Access your Google Cloud Dashboard


  2. In the side navigation click on the Credentials link.

    Typically, you will only have a single API key that shares access to all Google Cloud services. If you have more than one API Key, you will need to determine which one has access to the required Google Cloud services.

  3. Click on the name of the API key to navigate to the details screen for that key.


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


  5. Under Application restrictions choose the Websites option.


  6. Click the Add button that appears under Website restrictions and enter the following where YOUR_DOMAIN is your websites domain name.

    If your company was “AODA Websites” and your website domain is “aodawebsites.ca”, you would replace YOUR_DOMAIN with “aodawebsites.ca"

  • http://*.remwebsolutions.ca/*

  • https://*.remwebsolutions.ca/*

  • https://*.YOUR_DOMAIN/*

  • https://YOUR_DOMAIN/*

    1. When done, click on Save at the bottom.