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Google API Key

Description

General

  • Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/api-keys
  • Summary: Google API key is used to authenticate requests to any Google API (such as Maps for instance). Although these API keys don't give access to personal or sensitive data, exposing them can result in quota theft and unauthorized usage.

Revoke the secret

Existing keys can be managed from the console.

Details for Google API Key

  • Family: token

  • Category: cloud_provider

  • Company: Google

  • High recall: True

  • Validity check available: True

  • Analyzer available: False

  • On-premise instances exist: False

  • Only valid secrets raise an alert: False

  • Minimum number of matches: 1

  • Occurrences found for one million commits: 1226.16

  • Prefixed: True