Call the Gemini API with cURL

These examples show you how to call the Gemini API using curl. You can run them in Colab, or copy/paste the commands into your terminal.

Quickstart	Description	Open
Audio	Process audio files with the REST API.
Caching	Cache context to reduce cost and latency using REST.
Embeddings	Generate text embeddings using REST.
Function calling	Perform function calling with cURL and REST.
Function calling config	Configure function calling modes with REST.
Image generation	Generate images with Imagen using the REST API.
JSON mode	Enforce JSON output format with REST.
Models	List and retrieve model metadata with REST.
Prompting	Send text and multimodal prompts with REST.
Safety	Configure safety settings with REST.
Search Grounding	Ground responses with Google Search via REST.
Streaming	Stream responses in real-time with REST.
System instructions	Set system instructions using REST.
Video	Process video files with REST.