Getting started with the Google+ API
The Google+ API is the programming interface of Google+. This API can be used to integrate your app or website with Google+, similar to what we have already discussed for Twitter and Facebook. This section discusses the process of registering an application and getting started with the Google+ API.
Before starting, we need a Google account (https://www.google.com/accounts) if we haven't registered yet. Google offers several services (for example, Gmail, Blogger, and so on) but the account management is centralized. This means that if you are a user of one of these services, your account can be quickly set up for Google+.
Once you are registered and logged in, the starting point is the Google Developers Console (https://console.developers.google.com/start). From the console, we need to create our first project. Figure 5.1 shows the dialog for project creation, all we need to specify is a name for our project:
