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Gemini API PHP Client - Example

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Gemini API PHP Gemini

Gemini API PHP Client allows you to use the Google's generative AI models, like Gemini Pro and Gemini Pro Vision.

This library is not developed or endorsed by Google.

Table of Contents

Installation

You need an API key to gain access to Google's Gemini API. Visit Google AI Studio to get an API key.

First step is to install the Gemini API PHP client with Composer.

Gemini API PHP client does not come with an HTTP client. If you are just testing or do not have an HTTP client library in your project, you need to allow php-http/discovery composer plugin or install a PSR-18 compatible client library.

How to use

Basic text generation

Text generation using cached content and file uploaded

Multimodal input

Image input modality is only enabled for Gemini Pro Vision model

Chat Session (Multi-Turn Conversations)

Chat Session with history

Streaming responses

Requires curl extension to be enabled

In the streaming response, the callback function will be called whenever a response is returned from the server.

Long responses may be broken into separate responses, and you can start receiving responses faster using a content stream.

Streaming Chat Session

Requires curl extension to be enabled

Embed Content

Cached Content Resource

create

Creates CachedContent resource.

This example uses the Sherlock Jr. movie video used in documentation. File was first uploaded with media upload

Generate Content with a Cached Content The timeout for `generateContent` is set to 60s, request timeout to 120s. If your request is still exceeding these limits you may propose an increase.

delete

Deletes CachedContent resource.

get

Reads CachedContent resource.

list

Lists CachedContents.

patch

Updates CachedContent resource (only expiration is updatable).

File Resource

delete

Deletes the File.

get

Gets the metadata for the given File.

list

Lists the metadata for Files owned by the requesting project.

Media Resource

upload

Creates a File.

Tokens counting

Listing models

Advanced Usages

Safety Settings and Generation Configuration

Using your own HTTP client

Using your own HTTP client for streaming responses

Requires curl extension to be enabled

Since streaming responses are fetched using curl extension, they cannot use the custom HTTP client passed to the Gemini Client. You need to pass a CurlHandler if you want to override connection options.

The following curl options will be overwritten by the Gemini.

You can also pass the headers you want to be used in the requests.

All versions of client with dependencies

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Package Version
Requires php Version ^8.1
php-http/discovery Version ^1.19
psr/http-client Version ^1.0
psr/http-client-implementation Version *
psr/http-factory Version ^1.0.2
psr/http-factory-implementation Version *
psr/http-message Version ^1.0.1 || ^2.0
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