Before you begin

This page shows how to create a Google Cloud project, enable the Live Stream API, create authentication credentials, and grant your account one or more IAM roles. This page also shows how to create a Cloud Storage bucket to hold the live stream output files and how to install an encoder to generate input streams that the API processes.

Create a project

1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
2. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

3. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

   gcloud init

4. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   • Create a Google Cloud project:

     gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

     Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

   • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

     gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

     Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

5. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

6. Enable the Live Stream API:

   gcloud services enable livestream.googleapis.com

7. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:

   gcloud auth application-default login

   You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

8. Grant roles to your user account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/livestream.editor

   gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="USER_IDENTIFIER" --role=ROLE

   • Replace PROJECT_ID with your project ID.

   • Replace USER_IDENTIFIER with the identifier for your user account. For example, user:[e-mail].

   • Replace ROLE with each individual role.
9. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

10. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

    gcloud init

11. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

    Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

    • Create a Google Cloud project:

      gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

    • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

      gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

12. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

13. Enable the Live Stream API:

    gcloud services enable livestream.googleapis.com

14. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:

    gcloud auth application-default login

    You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

15. Grant roles to your user account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/livestream.editor

    gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="USER_IDENTIFIER" --role=ROLE

    • Replace PROJECT_ID with your project ID.

    • Replace USER_IDENTIFIER with the identifier for your user account. For example, user:[e-mail].

    • Replace ROLE with each individual role.

Note: Add the IAM role roles/storage.admin to your Google Account for more control over your project's Cloud Storage buckets.

Create a Cloud Storage bucket

Create a Cloud Storage bucket to hold the live stream manifest and segment files.

Google Cloud console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.

   Go to Buckets page

2. Click Create bucket.
3. On the Create a bucket page, enter your bucket information. To go to the next step, click Continue.
   • For Name your bucket, enter a name that meets the bucket naming requirements.
   • For Choose where to store your data, do the following:
     • Select a Location type option.
     • Select a Location option.
   • For Choose a default storage class for your data, select the following: Standard.
   • For Choose how to control access to objects, select an Access control option.
   • For Advanced settings (optional), specify an encryption method, a retention policy, or bucket labels.
4. Click Create.

Command line

Create a Cloud Storage bucket:

gcloud storage buckets create gs://BUCKET_NAME

Replace BUCKET_NAME with a bucket name that meets the bucket naming requirements.

Install an encoder

To use the API, you need an encoder to generate input streams that the API processes.

Install ffmpeg as this page covers how to use ffmpeg to generate input streams. You can install this in Cloud Shell using the following command.

sudo apt install ffmpeg